Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Reason without passion is sterile, but passion without reason is hysteria.

I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

The scientist keeps the romantic honest, and the romantic keeps the scientist human.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit.

I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

Learn to share your love with others, but keep part of this love for yourself

For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.

An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?