Max Weber Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation.

  Max Weber

  Analysis, Judgment, Explanation

  Max Weber (1949). “Max Weber on the methodology of the social sciences”

• 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.

  Max Weber

  Art, Philosophy, Fate

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

• The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos the "intellectual sacrifice" is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of "science" and the sphere of "the holy" is unbridgeable.

  Max Weber

  Religious, Sacrifice, Men

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.154, Routledge

• 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 .

  Max Weber

  Meaningful, Judging, Matter

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.81, Lulu Press, Inc

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