"That curious modern hypostatization “service” is often called in to substitute for the now incomprehensible doctrine of vocation. It tries to secure subordination by hypothesizing something larger than the self, which turns out, however, to be only a multitude of selfish selves. The familiar change from quality to quantity may again be noted; one serves not the higher part of the self (this entails hierarchy) … but merely consumer demand. And who admires those at the top of a hierarchy of consumption? Man as a consuming animal is thus seen to be not enough."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences (Chicago: 1948), p. 77
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Quantity
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Quantity
13 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Quantity →
Related Quotes
"If the quality of society could be replaced by quantity, it would be worth while to live in the world at large; but u…"
"Monotony of evil: never anything new, everything about it is equivalent. ... It is because of this monotony that quan…"
"The spirit, overcome by the weight of quantity, has no longer any other criterion than efficiency."
"The mass is a matrix from which all traditional behavior toward works of art issues today in a new form. Quantity has…"
"Quantity has a quality all its own."
"The demon of quantity, who will soon rule the world, is pressing home his attack and fortifying his positions in lite…"
"“Aristocracy,” … taken in its etymological sense, means precisely the power of the elect. The elect, by the very defi…"
"It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of le…"
"Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning …"
"Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what we can measure is more important than what we can…"