Max Weber
Max Weber
Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weberwas a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 April 1864
CountryGermany
clubs ethics cult
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
hard-work fate years
[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.
truth-is
The Truth is the Truth.
meaningful judging matter
Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .
earning ethics puritan
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
integrity intellectual lectures
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
men historical impossible
Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
mean thinking people
However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.
religious sacrifice men
The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science" and the sphere of "the holy" is unbridgeable.
analysis judgment explanation
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
accomplishment today lifetime
Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
heart civilization levels
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
father tasks generations
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.
stupid views calling
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.