The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the intellectual sacrifice — is the decisive characteristic of the positively religious man. That this is so is shown by the fact that in spite of (or rather in consequence) of theology (which unveils it) the tension between the value-spheres of science and the sphere of the holy is unbridgeable.


As quoted in Basit Bilal Koshu's The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber's Legacy, p. 62.

Max Weber Quotes

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the intellectual sacrifice — is the decisive characteristic of the positively...

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the intellectual sacrifice — is the decisive characteristic of the positively...

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the intellectual sacrifice — is the decisive characteristic of the positively...

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the intellectual sacrifice — is the decisive characteristic of the positively...