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“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.”

Quote by Richard M. Weaver

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Richard M. Weaver

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. more

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“Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.”

People Mean Persons Economic Higher Planes

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

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

“Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.”

Mind Lost Offers Unity Restoring

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our world. If schools of journalism knew their business, they would graduate no one who could not render the Greek poets.”

Ifs World Way Mind School Poet Journalism Excellent Greek Our World Graduates Translations Exaggeration Drills Looseness

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“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.”

World Realizing Community Perceive

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.”

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

“The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.”

Men Important Self Matter Taught Bases Important Things Resistance Temptation Code Gentleman Materialism Sentiments Restraint Pragmatic Idealist Self Restraint

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.”

Kind Has Beens Country Given Politician Europe Entrepreneur Rewards Gentleman Materialism Idealism Cunning

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“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.”

Humans Ends States Source Assuming Divinity Remove Human Society Sacredness

Author:Richard M. Weaver

“The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician.”

Men Lovers Scientist

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“A prejudice may be an unreasoned judgment, he [Hibben] pointed out, but an unreasoned judgment is not necessarily an illogical judgment. ... First, there are those judgments whose verification has simply dropped out of memory. ... The second type of unreasoned judgments we hold is the opinions we adopt from others ... The third class of judgments in Professor Hibben's list comprises those which have subconscious origin. The material that furnishes their support does not reach the focal point of consciousness, but psychology insists upon its existence.”