Richard M. Weaver Quotes

• Nature is not something to be fought, conquered and changed according to any human whims. To some extent, of course, it has to be used. But what man should seek in regard to nature is not a complete domination but a modus vivendi - that is, a manner of living together, a coming to terms with something that was here before our time and will be here after it. The important corollary of this doctrine, it seems to me, is that man is not the lord of creation, with an omnipotent will, but a part of creation, with limitations, who ought to observe a decent humility in the face of the inscrutable.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Humility, Men, Important

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• It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Vanity, Personality

  "Ideas have Consequences". Book by Richard M. Weaver, p. 62, 1948.

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• When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mentir, Hombres, Largo

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• The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetite.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Past, Men, Connections

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.101, University of Chicago Press

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• No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Healthy, States, Morrow

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• We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to measure our descent.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Descent, Capacity

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• The home was a school. Farm and cabin households, though bookless save for the Family Bible and The Sacred Harp, taught the girls to spin, weave, quilt, cook, sew, and mind their manners; the boys to wield gun, ax, hammer and saw, to ride, plow, sow and reap, and to be men. Nobody need ever be bored. Amusement did not have to be bought.

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  Girl, Quilts, War

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• It is likely ... that human society cannot exist without some source of sacredness. Those states which have sought openly to remove it have tended in the end to assume divinity themselves.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Divinity, Assuming, Ends

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• The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man.

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  Independent, Destiny, Men

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• In the last analysis, provincialism is your belief in yourself, in your neighborhood, in your reality. It is patriotism without belligerence. Convincing cases have been made to show that all great art is provincial in the sense of reflecting a place, a time, and a Zeitgeist.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Art, Reality, Analysis

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

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  Fuerte, Carácter, Hombres

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• Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Principles, Prejudice

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mind, Principles, Prejudice

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life without prejudice, and other essays”

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• Until the world perceives that "good" cannot be applied to a thing because it is our own, and "bad" because it is another's, there is no prospect of realizing community.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Community, World, Realizing

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.151, University of Chicago Press

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• The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Media, Civilización, Dos

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• Caballería - ...un idealismo romántico estrechamente relacionado con el cristianismo, que hace del honor el principio rector de la conducta. Conectado con esto está el antiguo concepto del caballero.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Guiding Principles, Gentleman

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• Ideas have consequences.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Ideas, Consequence

  Richard M. Weaver (1995). “Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time”, Isi Books

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• [The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Wish, Faults

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• The hero can never be a relativist.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Héroe

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.31, University of Chicago Press

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• Any utterance is a major assumption of responsibility, and the assumption that one can avoid that responsibility by doing something to language itself is one of the chief considerations of the Phaedrus.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Responsibility, Utterance, Assumption

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.6, Psychology Press

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• Lo más importante del caballero era que era un idealista. ... Fue educado en un código de autocontrol que le enseñó a resistir la tentación pragmática. Era sin duda un hombre de sentimientos, que se negaba a poner las cosas sobre una base de materialismo y engrandecimiento propio.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Self, Temptation

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

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  Way, Tradition, Stripping

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Lovers, Scientist

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.21, Psychology Press

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• La educación es un proceso por el cual el individuo se desarrolla en algo mejor de lo que habría sido sin ella. ... Esta idea parece, en cierto modo, el colmo de la presunción. Por un lado, implica la premisa de que algunos seres humanos pueden ser mejores que otros.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Height, Way, Individual

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

  Richard M. Weaver

  War, Southern, Victory

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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