Quote#Wisdom
Above all, as will be repeatedly apparent in the sections below,…
Quote byMax Weber · 1864–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 4 : The Religious Foundations of This-Wordly Asceticism.
English (original)
Above all, as will be repeatedly apparent in the sections below, fundamental for our discussion is the investigation of the idea of a testifying to one's belief as the psychological point of origin for methodical ethics.
— Max Weber
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