Quotes by : Richard M. Weaver

It will be found that every attack upon religion, or upon characteristic ideas inherited from religion,....

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its....

[I]f we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose....

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot....

The scientists have given [modern man] the impression that there is nothing he cannot know, and false....

Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded....

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than....

Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily....