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• [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

  War, Wish, Faults

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• Try to imagine a man setting out for the day without a single prejudice. ... Inevitably he would be in a state of paralysis. He could not get up in the morning, or choose his necktie, or make his way to the office, ... or, to come right down to the essence of the thing, even maintain his identity.

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  Morning, Men, Essence

  Richard M. Weaver (1966). “Life Without Prejudice: And Other Essays”

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• Respecters of private property are really obligated to oppose much that is done today in the name of private enterprise, for corporate organization and monopoly are the very means whereby property is casting aside its privacy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Mean, Names, Organization

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

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  Bridges, Important, Fiction

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.136, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

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  Men, Rights, Conservative

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

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  Evil, Optimism, Tragedy

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• Those who are guilty of the argumentum ad ignorantiam profess belief in something because its opposite cannot be proved ... In the realm where "prejudice" is now most an issue, it normally takes a form like this: you cannot prove by the method of statistics and quantitative measurement that men are not equal. Therefore all men are equal. ... You cannot prove again by the methods of science that one culture is higher than another. Therefore the culture of the Digger Indians is just a good as that of Muncie, Indiana, or thirteenth-century France.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Issues, Opposites

  "Life Without Prejudice". Book by Richard M. Weaver, "Life without prejudice," p. 6, 1965.

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• Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

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  Unity, Mind, Lost

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.150, University of Chicago Press

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• Most [people] see education only as the means by which a person is transported from one economic plane to a higher one.

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  Mean, People, Economic

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

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  Character, Self, Transcendence

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.73, University of Chicago Press

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• Since we want not emancipation from impulse but clarification of impulse, the duty of rhetoric is to bring together action and understanding into a whole that is greater than scientific perception.

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  Understanding, Perception, Together

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• To one completely committed to this realm of becoming, as are the empiricists, the claim to apprehend verities is a sign of psychopathology. Probably we have here but a highly sophisticated expression of the doctrine that ideals are hallucination and that the only normal, sane person is the healthy extrovert, making instant, instinctive adjustments to the stimuli of the material world.

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  Expression, Healthy, Becoming

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.137, University of Chicago Press

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• The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

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  War, Southern, Victory

  Richard M. Weaver (1987). “The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver”, Liberty Fund

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• Al hombre se le asegura constantemente que tiene más poder que nunca antes en la historia, pero su experiencia diaria es de impotencia. ... Si trabaja en una organización empresarial, lo más probable es que haya sacrificado cualquier otro tipo de independencia a cambio de la dudosa independencia financiera.

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  Men, Odds, Organization

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• 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.

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  Hombres, Doe, Kind

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Triumphs against the natural order of living exact unforeseen payments. At the same time that man attempts to straighten a crooked nature, he is striving to annihilate space, which seems but another phase of the war against substance. We ignore the fact that space and matter are shock absorbers; the more we diminish them the more we reduce our privacy and security.

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  Guerra, Hombres, Orden

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.155, University of Chicago Press

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• Neuter discourse is a false idol.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Idols, Discourse

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.24, Psychology Press

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• ...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Reality, Materials

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• That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously.

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  Believe, Mean, Men

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.22, University of Chicago Press

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• Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

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  Fall, Tolerance, Done

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.156, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.

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  Giving, Understanding, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The typical modern has the look of the hunted.

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  Typical, Looks, Modern

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.16, University of Chicago Press

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• We cannot be too energetic in reminding our nihilists and positivists that this is a world of action and history.

  Richard M. Weaver

  World, Action, Nihilist

  Letter to R. T. Eubanks (January 19, 1961) in "Language is Sermonic", p. 56, 1970.

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• Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.

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  Men, Progress, Lost

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.216, Psychology Press

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• It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.

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  Media, Hombres, Dar

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