German - Economist | April 21, 1864 - June 14, 1920
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
Max Weber
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Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.
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Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
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Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.
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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
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Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
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Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.
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Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.
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Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.
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All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
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Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
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