[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of all is the fear that it gestates the revolutionary impulse of our future. Richard M. Weaver More Quotes by Richard M. Weaver More Quotes From Richard M. Weaver The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one’s view of the nature and destiny of man. Richard M. Weaver independent destiny men Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not. Richard M. Weaver decay religious wish Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm. Richard M. Weaver kind doe men The complete man, then, is the "lover" added to the scientist; the rhetorician to the dialectician. Richard M. Weaver scientist lovers men 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. Richard M. Weaver conservative rights men Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego. Richard M. Weaver ego discipline different The hero can never be a relativist. Richard M. Weaver hero The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. Richard M. Weaver victory southern war 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. Richard M. Weaver support class memories The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences. Richard M. Weaver pitfalls may memories The realization that just as no action is really indifferent, so no utterance is without its responsibility introduces, it is true, a certain strenuosity into life. Richard M. Weaver utterance realization responsibility 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. Richard M. Weaver objectivity bears doors 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. Richard M. Weaver believe culture reality Before the age of adulteration it was held that behind each work there stood some conception of its perfect execution. It was this that gave zest to labor and served to measure the degree of success. Richard M. Weaver zest age perfect Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one. Richard M. Weaver economic mean people 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. Richard M. Weaver democracy energy may Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind. Richard M. Weaver unity mind lost 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. Richard M. Weaver our-world greek school 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. Richard M. Weaver entrepreneur europe country 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. Richard M. Weaver details lost men