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• 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.

  Max Weber

  Thinking, Age, Months

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.135, Routledge

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• [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.

  Max Weber

  Hard Work, Fate, Science

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

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• Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

  Max Weber

  Bears, Artistic, Type

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.151, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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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• Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized act.

  Max Weber

  Accomplishment, Today, Lifetime

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• Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

  Max Weber

  Play, Events, Roles

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.96, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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. Only he who in the face of all this can say 'In spite of all!' has the calling for politics.

  Max Weber

  Stupid, Views, Calling

  "From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology".

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• All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this reality constitutes the object of scientific investigation, and that only it is 'important' in the sense of being 'worthy of being known.

  Max Weber

  Reality, Mind, Important

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.104, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Laws are important and valuable in the exact natural sciences, in the measure that those sciences are universally valid.

  Max Weber

  Law, Important, Natural

  Max Weber, Edward Shils, Henry A. Finch (1949). “The methodology of the social sciences”, Free Pr

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• It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to keep his small personal commentarie to himself, as one does at the sight of the sea or of majestic mountains, unless he knows himself to be called and gifted to give them expression in artistic or prophetic form. In most other cases, the voluminous talk about intuition does nothing but conceal a lack of perspective toward the object, which merits the same judgement as a similar lack of perspective toward men.

  Max Weber

  Destiny, Men, Sight

  Max Weber (1930). “The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism”

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• Those human groups that
  entertain a subjective belief in
  their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or both, or because of memories of colonization
  and migration; this belief must be important for group
  formation; furthermore it does not matter whether an objective blood relationship exists.

  Max Weber

  Memories, Blood, Important

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• 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.

  Max Weber

  Wish, Trying, Tasks

  Max Weber (1968). “On Charisma and Institution Building”, p.295, University of Chicago Press

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• It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.

  Max Weber

  Men, Numbers, Outsiders

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.99, Routledge

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