Max Weber Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.”

“Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.”

“Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.”

“One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.”

“It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.”

“Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.”

“Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.”

“Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”

“Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.”

“Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.”