Richard M. Weaver

Quotes

• “Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existenc...”
• “It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion, when its assumpt...”
• “The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false propagandists have...”
• “Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things...”
• “Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is on...”