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• It is not that things give meaning to words; it is that meaning makes things "things." It does not make things in their subsistence; but it does make things in their discreteness for the understanding.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Giving, Understanding, Doe

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• ...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Reality, Materials

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• The disappearance of the heroic ideal is always accompanied by the growth of commercialism. There is a cause-and-effect relationship here, for the man of commerce is by the nature of things a relativist; his mind is constantly on the fluctuating values of the marketplace, and there is no surer way to fail than to dogmatize and moralize about things.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Men, Growth, Mind

  "Ideas Have Consequences". Book by Richard Weaver, p. 32, 1948.

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• The case of the Baconians is not won until it has been proved that the substitution of covetousness for wantlessness, or an ascending spiral of desires for a stable requirement of necessities, leads to a happier condition.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Desire, Ascending, Requirements

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.13, University of Chicago Press

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• The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation. We have said - to the point of repletion, perhaps - that man is not to take his patterns from nature; but neither is he to waste himself in seeking to change her face.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Attitude, Men, Substance

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.171, University of Chicago Press

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• The true religion, it is said, is service to mankind; but this service seems to take the form of securing for him an unconditional victory over nature. Now this attitude is impious, for, as has been noted, it violates the belief that creation or nature is fundamentally good, that the ultimate reason for its laws is a mystery, and that acts of defiance such as are daily celebrated by the newspapers are subversive of cosmos.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Attitude, Law, Victory

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• We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Healing, Conservative, Medical

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• The word is a sort of deliverance from the shifting world of appearances. The central teaching of the New Testament is that those who accept the word acquire wisdom and at the same time some identification with the eternal.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Teaching, World, Shifting

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.135, University of Chicago Press

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• The South is the region that history has happened to.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Southern, Regions, Happened

  "The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver".

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