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Ideas Have Consequences
Richard M. Weaver
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.”
“The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have told him that there is nothing he cannot have.”
“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.”
“The hero can never be a relativist.”
“The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.”
“It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumptions are laid bare, turns out to be an attack upon mind.”
“Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.”
“There is no correlation between the degree of comfort enjoyed and the achievement of a civilization. On the contrary, absorption in ease is one of the most reliable signs of present or impending decay.”
“No society is healthy which tells its members to take no thought of the morrow because the state underwrites their future.”
“Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.”
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