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Richard Weaver Quotes

Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception Picture Quote #1

All of us have had the experience of finding a particularly felicitous phrase in poetry and of feeling: This is what the world really means; he has hit it closer than anyone has ever hit it before Picture Quote #1

Now, with the general decay of religious faith, it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not Picture Quote #1

We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history Picture Quote #1

In dialectic the student... Will get training in thinking, whereas the best that he gets now is a vague admonition to think for himself Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Most see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one Picture Quote #1

No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity Picture Quote #1

Practically all traditional distinctions, whether economic, moral, social, or aesthetic, are today under assault as founded on a prejudice Picture Quote #1

Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal Picture Quote #1

The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life Picture Quote #1

Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm Picture Quote #1

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The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Plato was disturbed by written discourse because … if an individual goes to it with a question in his mind, it always gives one unvarying answer Picture Quote #1

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy Picture Quote #1

… contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed Picture Quote #1

In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them Picture Quote #1

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Those who based their lives on the unintelligence of sentimentality fight to save themselves with the unintelligence of brutality Picture Quote #1

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception (Richard Weaver Quotes) All of us have had the experience of finding a particularly felicitous phrase in poetry and of feeling: This is what the world really means; he has hit it closer than anyone has ever hit it before (Richard Weaver Quotes) Now, with the general decay of religious faith, it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not (Richard Weaver Quotes) We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history (Richard Weaver Quotes) In dialectic the student... Will get training in thinking, whereas the best that he gets now is a vague admonition to think for himself (Richard Weaver Quotes) 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 Weaver Quotes) Most see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one (Richard Weaver Quotes) No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on a primary reality of economic activity (Richard Weaver Quotes) Practically all traditional distinctions, whether economic, moral, social, or aesthetic, are today under assault as founded on a prejudice (Richard Weaver Quotes) Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal (Richard Weaver Quotes) The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life (Richard Weaver Quotes) Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm (Richard Weaver Quotes) The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting (Richard Weaver Quotes) 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 Weaver Quotes) Plato was disturbed by written discourse because … if an individual goes to it with a question in his mind, it always gives one unvarying answer (Richard Weaver Quotes) The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy (Richard Weaver Quotes) … contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed (Richard Weaver Quotes) In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them (Richard Weaver Quotes) Those who based their lives on the unintelligence of sentimentality fight to save themselves with the unintelligence of brutality (Richard Weaver Quotes) When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason (Richard Weaver Quotes) 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 Weaver Quotes)