Max Weber book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905; 1920), Ch. 5 : Asceticism and the Spirit of Capitalism
“specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”
Source: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
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