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The Truth is the Truth.
The decisive means for politics is violence.
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.
Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics.
Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.
A highly developed stock exchange cannot be a club for the cult of ethics.
Nothing is worthy of man as man unless he can pursue it with passionate devotion.
Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.
Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.
Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.
Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.
Daily and hourly, the politician inwardly has to overcome a quite trivial and all-too-human enemy: a quite vulgar vanity.
Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.
The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.
Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified.
specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.
The fully developed bureaucratic apparatus compares with other organisations exactly as does the machine with the non-mechanical modes of production.
Puritanism carried the ethos of the rational organization of capital and labor. It took over from the Jewish ethic only what was adapted to this purpose.
The primary task of a useful teacher is to teach his students to recognize 'inconvenient' facts - I mean facts that are inconvenient for their party opinions.
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.
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
One cannot with impunity try to transfer this task entirely to mechanical assistants if one wishes to figure something, even though the final result is often small indeed.
Only on the assumption of belief in the validity of values is the attempt to espouse value-judgments meaningful. However, to judge the validity of such values is a matter of faith .
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion.
The so-called 'materialistic conception of history,' with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the 'Communist Manifesto,' still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.
The great virtue of bureaucracy - indeed, perhaps its defining characteristic ~ was that it was an institutional method for applying general rules to specific cases, thereby making the actions of government fair and predictable.
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.
Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.
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.