“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true. Anyone who fails to see this is, indeed, a political infant.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“The process of sanctifying life could thus almost take on the character of a business enterprise. ”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“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.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“Its entry on the scene was not generally peaceful. A flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation, regularly opposed itself to the first innovator.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)
“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;”
― Max Weber (1864-1920)