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“Life without prejudice, were it ever to be tried, would soon reveal itself to be a life without principle. For prejudices, as we have seen earlier, are often built-in principles. They are the extract which the mind has made of experience.”

Quote by Richard M. Weaver

Book:Life without prejudice, and other essays

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Life without prejudice, and other essays

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into the complexities of prejudice and its impact on society. The essays offer insights into various aspects of social justice and the human condition. more

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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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“Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.”

Men Way Trying States Would Be Morning Imagine Identity Office Essence Prejudice Setting Settings Get Up Paralysis Neckties

Book:Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays

Source: Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays

“The aristocratic mind ... is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.”

Mind Concerned Aristocratic

Book:Life without prejudice, and other essays

Source: Life without prejudice, and other essays

“To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.”

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.”

Men Feels Lost Progress

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.”

Speak Wish Religious Scientist Decay Exes Religious Faith

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric

“It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.”

Giving Doe Understanding Subsistence

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

“In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render him a man of knowledge. With what pathetic trust does he recite his facts! He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.”

Men Doe Has Beens Facts Imagine Average Great Men Imagine That Arena Small Things Pathetic Acquisition Average Man Industrious Knowledge Is Power

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.”

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Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. ... If he is with a business organization, the odds are great that he has sacrificed every other kind of independence in return for that dubious one known as financial.”

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Author:Richard M. Weaver

“The prevailing conception is that education must be such as will enable one to acquire enough wealth to live on the plane of the bourgeoisie. That kind of education does not develop the aristocratic virtues. It neither encourages reflection nor inspires reverence for the good.”

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Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences