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 | “In proportion as man approaches the outer rim, he becomes lost in details, and the more he is preoccupied with details, the less he can understand them.” ―Richard Weaver Source/Notes: Ideas have Consequences (1948) |
| “The trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting.” ―Richard Weaver Source/Notes: Ideas have Consequences (1948) |
| “Education is a process by which the individual is developed into something better than he would have been without it. … The very though seems in a way the height of presumption. For one thing, it involves the premise that some human beings can be better than others.” ―Richard Weaver Source/Notes: Education and the individual, p. 43 - Life Without Prejudice (1965) |
| “Man is an organism, not a mechanism; and the mechanical pacing of his life does harm to his human responses, which naturally follow a kind of free rhythm.” ―Richard Weaver Source/Notes: Individuality and Modernity, Essays on Individuality (Philadelphia: 1958), p. 66 |
Richard Weaver
Born: March 3, 1910
Died: April 1, 1963 (aged 53)
Nationality: American
Bio: Richard Malcolm Weaver, Jr was an American scholar who taught English at the University of Chicago. He is primarily known as a shaper of mid- 20th century conservatism and as an authority on modern rhetoric.
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