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“The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.”

Humans Self Moments Reality Bears Demand Normal Essence Function Simplicity Witness Evident Hostile Fringe Brutality Reverie Human Psyche

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“The very essence of democracy is the absolute faith that while people must cooperate, the first function of democracy, its peculiar gift, is to develop each individual into everything that he might be.”

People Firsts Might Individual Democracy Essence Function Absolutes Peculiar

Author:Edwin Land

“The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.”

Ifs Together Cases Essence Function Preserves Purity Egypt Altered Inertia Chained

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.”

Humans May Social Essence Function Leisure Embedded

Book:An Anthology

Source: An Anthology

“One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.”

Civilization Essence Function Visible Wilderness Refuge Urban Horns Intangible Pavement Negation Billboards

Author:Benton MacKaye

“Why shouldn't I be interested in politics? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves.”

Form Political Existence Our Lives Economic Subjects Essence Function Relation Ideology Crucial Permission Blindness Prohibition Density Deafness

Author:Michel Foucault

“The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”

States Individual Groups Essence Function Absolutes Aim Doctrine Conception Relative Fascism Fascists Keystones

Author:Benito Mussolini

“Love is eternal -- the aspect may change, but not the essence. There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. The lamp was there and was a good lamp, but now it is shedding light too, and that is its real function. And love makes one calmer about many things, and that way, one is more fit for one's work.”

Way Love May Persons Real Light Motivational Differences Love Is Fit Eternal Aspect Essence And Love Function Burning Lamps Before And After Calmer Shedding Light

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.”

Way Form Lines Essence Function Shoes Elegant

Author:David Mazzucchelli

“Anything which is a living and not a dying body... will have to be an incarnate will to power, it will strive to grow, spread, seize, become predominant - not from any morality or immorality but because it is living and because life simply is will to power... 'Exploitation'... belongs to the essence of what lives, as a basic organic function; it is a consequence of the will to power, which is after all the will to life.”

Body Evil Grows Dying Morality Consequence Essence Function Strive Spread Good And Evil Exploitation Will Power Immorality Good Evil Beyond Good And Evil

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.”

Two Real Quality Roles Essence Function Customers Organisation Good Business Suppliers

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“The function of the margin of safety is, in essence, that of rendering unnecessary an accurate estimate of the future.”

Essence Function Safety Accurate Unnecessary Margins Rendering

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel