Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

Max Weber
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  1. The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.

  2. Weber, ... argues that... personal bias should not preclude the scientific ascertainment of objective historical facts.

  3. Tolstoi has given the simplest answer, with the words: ‘Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: "What shall we do and how shall we live?"' That science does not give an answer to this is...

  4. Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. 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. But to...

  5. The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning.

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