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“Hale is what he is in the American pantheon not because of what he did, but because of why he did it.”

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Nathan Hale was a soldier during the American Revolutionary War, known for his bravery and sacrifice. Born on June 6, 1755, in Connecticut, he was captured and executed by the British during the Battle of Long Island on September 22, 1776. more

“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.”

Men Facts Values Religious Sacrifice Holy Intellectual Consequence Capacity Theology Accomplishment Tension Characteristics Spite Spheres Positively

Book:From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology

“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 .”

Matter Values Belief Judging Judgment Meaningful Assumption Validity

Book:On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

“The Truth is the Truth.”

Truth Is

Author:Max Weber

“A fully developed bureaucratic mechanism stands in the same relationship to other forms as does the machine to the non-mechanical production of goods. Precision, speed, clarity, documentary ability, continuity, discretion, unity, rigid subordination, reduction of friction and material and personal expenses are unique to bureaucratic organization.”

Doe Form Ability Materials Unique Machines Organization Unity Productions Speed Clarity Goods Expenses Mechanism Documentaries Continuity Discretion Reduction Precision Friction Subordination

Author:Max Weber

“True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.”

Wells Evil Liberty

Author:John Winthrop

“He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.”

Christian Opinion Ought Architecture Refined

Author:Christopher Wren

“The one impulse in man which cannot be erased is his impulse toward freedom, his impulse toward sanity, toward higher levels of attainment in all of his endeavors.”

Men Levels Higher Impulse Endeavor Sanity Attainment Higher Level

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

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