"Absorption in ease is one of the most……" — Richard M. Weaver
"Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay."
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25 Quotes by Richard M. Weaver
Richard M. Weaver has 25 quotes on this site.
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In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without…
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Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of…
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The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the…
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No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their…
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The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism…
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The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told…
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Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the…
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The typical modern has the look of the hunted.
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Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise,…
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The hero can never be a relativist.
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The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here,…
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[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation.…
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More Absorption Quotes
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
— Oliver Sacks
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Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An…
— Stephen King
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the…
— Rollo May
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I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench…
— Irving Howe
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Our knowledge of stars and interstellar matter must be based primarily on the electromagnetic radiation which reaches us. Nature has…
— Lyman Spitzer
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The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of…
— Hugo Ball
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The tantalizing and compelling pursuit of mathematical problems offers mental absorption, peace of mind amid endless challenges, repose in activity,…
— Morris Kline
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To see color as form means looking at the image in a new way, trying to free oneself from absorption…
— Unknown Author
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I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric…
— Michael Myers
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In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot…
— Hyman Minsky
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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass…
— John Dewey
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Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation…
— Mark Helprin
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