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

Quote by Richard M. Weaver

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

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The Ethics of Rhetoric

This book delves into the philosophical underpinnings of rhetoric, examining how ethical considerations shape the use of persuasive language and communication. 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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“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.”

Has Beens Desire Cases Conditions Stable Requirements Spirals Covetousness Substitution Ascending

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.”

Ifs Men Kind Known Return Organization Independence Financial Odds Assured Powerlessness Dubious Daily Experience Business Organization

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.”

Kind Doe Enough Wealth Virtue Inspire Reflection Planes Acquire Conception Reverence Prevailing Bourgeoisie Aristocratic

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“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.”

Men Lost Approach Details Proportion Rims

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“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 conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.”

May Energy Democracy Conclusion Popularity Peril Atomic Energy

Book:Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

Source: Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition

“Beneath the surface of repartee and mock seriousness, [Plato's Phaedrus] is asking whether we ought to prefer a neuter form of speech to the kind which is ever getting us aroused over things and provoking an expense of spirit.”

Kind Form Spirit Ought Speech Asking Surface Expenses Provoking Plato Seriousness Mock Beneath The Surface Plato S Repartee

Book:The Ethics of Rhetoric

Source: The Ethics of Rhetoric