"Piety is a discipline of the will through……" — Richard M. Weaver
"Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego."
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25 Quotes by Richard M. Weaver
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Absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.
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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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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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