Max Weber Quotes
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.
Weber, Max. "Politics as a Vocation." From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills, Oxford University Press, 1946, p. 128.
Maximilian Karl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist, who is regarded among the most important theorists on the development of modern Western society. His ideas would profoundly influence social theory and social research. Despite being recognized as one of the fathers of sociology, along with Auguste Comte and Émile Durkheim, Weber never saw himself as a sociologist, but as an historian.