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Max Weber Quotes about Fate

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The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Fate, World, Disenchanted

Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

Art, Philosophy, Fate

Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.155, Routledge

The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

Struggle, Moving, Fate

Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

[In] the realm of science, ... what we have achieved will be obsolete in ten, twenty or fifty years. That is the fate, indeed, that is the very meaning of scientific work. ... Every scientific "fulfillment" raises new "questions" and cries out to be surpassed rendered obsolete. Everyone who wishes to serve science has to resign himself to this.

Hard Work, Fate, Science

Max Weber, David S. Owen, Tracy B. Strong (2004). “The Vocation Lectures”, p.11, Hackett Publishing

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