Max Weber Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Max Weber
Max Weber Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
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.
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.
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
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.
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.
... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.
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 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.
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