Quote#Politics & Power
In this regard too I consider myself a cripple, a stunted man whose…
Quote byMax Weber · 1864–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Max Weber, letter to Ferdinand Tönnies, Feb. 19, 1909; As cited in: . Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920. Oxford University Press, 24 mrt. 1988. p. 498.
English (original)
In this regard too I consider myself a cripple, a stunted man whose fate it is to admit honestly that he must put up with this state of affairs (so as not to fall for some romantic swindle)... For you a theologian of liberal persuasion (whether Catholic or Protestant) is necessarily most abhorrent as the typical representative of a halfway position
— Max Weber
More from Max Weber
The Truth is the Truth.
Mysticism intends a state of "possession," not action, and the individual is not a tool but a "vessel" of the divine.
For the true mystic the principle continues to hold: the creature must be silent so that God may speak.
The contrast between asceticism and mysticism is also tempered if the contemplative mystic does not draw the conclusion that he should flee from the world, but, like the inner-worldly asceticist, remain in the orders of the world …
The capacity to distinguish between empirical knowledge and value-judgments, and the fulfillment of the scientific duty to see the factual truth as well as the practical duty to stand up for our own ideals constitute the program to which …
Modern capitalism has as little use for liberum arbitrium [undisciplined] persons as laborers as it has for the businessman fully without scruples in the running of his company.