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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

One may attain salvation in any walk of life; on

spirit of capitalism is best understood as part of the development of rationalism as a whole,

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

The decisive means for politics is violence.

The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry,

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.

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

The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus

...Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

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

The Truth is the Truth.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

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

Weber,... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.

The radical elimination of magic from the world allowed no other psychological course than the practice of worldly asceticism. Since

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus

... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.

Wesley's anti-Calvinistic faction within the movement with its doctrine that grace could be lost. The

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

The process of sanctifying life could thus almost take on the character of a business enterprise.

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.

Beware of thinking all your own that you possess, and of living accordingly. It is a mistake that many people who have credit fall into.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings (Prov. xxii. 29).

A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.

A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.

After industry and frugality, nothing contributes more to the raising of a young man in the world than punctuality and justice in all his dealings;

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

He must be stilled in order to create that deep repose of the soul in which alone the word of God can be heard. Of

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