Max Weber citáty
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Max Weber
Datum narození:21. duben 1864
Datum úmrtí:14. červen 1920
Citáty Max Weber
„specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.“
— Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
„It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.“
— Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and Other Writings
„The ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion.“
— Max Weber
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
„Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.“
— Max Weber
The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism
„... the ultimately possible attitudes toward life are irreconcilable, and hence their struggle can never be brought to a final conclusion. Thus it is necessary to make a decisive choice. Whether, under such conditions, science is a worth while 'vocation' for somebody, and whether science itself has an objectively valuable 'vocation' are again value judgments about which nothing can be said in the lecture-room. To affirm the value of science is a presupposition for teaching there. I personally by my very work answer in the affirmative, and I also do so from precisely the standpoint that hates intellectualism as the worst devil, as youth does today, or usually only fancies it does. In that case the word holds for these youths: 'Mind you, the devil is old; grow old to understand him.' This does not mean age in the sense of the birth certificate. It means that if one wishes to settle with this devil, one must not take flight before him as so many like to do nowadays. First of all, one has to see the devil's ways to the end in order to realize his power and his limitations.“
— Max Weber
From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
