Max Weber quotes - page 3

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. (Max Weber)
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.' View quote
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Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. View quote
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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. View quote
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Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid. View quote
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity. View quote
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act. View quote
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself. View quote
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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. View quote
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Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal. View quote
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The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another. (Max Weber)
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. View quote
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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. View quote
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A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics. View quote
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar. View quote
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It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. View quote
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The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. View quote
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