Max Weber
Max Weber
Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weberwas a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 April 1864
CountryGermany
reality views may
All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.
memories blood important
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.
mean thinking people
However many people complain about the "red tape," it would be sheer illusion to think ... continuous administrative work can be carried out in any field except by means of officials working in offices.... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dillettantism.
artist soldier acquisition
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.
mean distribution-of-power groups
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.
thinking age months
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.
religious emotional class
The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.
strong boards boring
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
religious world revolution
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
men historical impossible
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.
religious sacrifice men
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.