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Richard M. Weaver was an influential American philosopher, born on March 3, 1910, and died on April 1, 1963. He is known for his profound insights into language, culture, and political philosophy, particularly for his work 'The Language of Art', which explored the nature of language and its relationship to reality.

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“It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration. ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development. ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics.”

“The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.”

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Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“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.”

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“The typical modern has the look of the hunted.”

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Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“The modern position seems only another manifestation of egotism, which develops when man has reached a point at which he will no longer admit the rights to existence of things not of his own contriving.”

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Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

About the Author

Born: March 3, 1910
Died: April 1, 1963
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 85

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Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded EditionRelated source material

Ideas Have ConsequencesRelated source material

The Ethics of RhetoricRelated source material

In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963Related source material

Life Without Prejudice: And Other EssaysRelated source material

Life without prejudice, and other essaysRelated source material

The Southern Essays of Richard M. WeaverRelated source material

Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our TimeRelated source material

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