“[T]he task of abolishing the essence of Jewry is in truth the task of abolishing Jewry in civil society, abolishing the inhumanity of today's practice of life, the summit of which is the money system.” TodayPracticeTasksEssenceSummitCivil SocietyInhumanity Book:The holy family Source: The holy family
“If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.” IfsMenWorldMindMayEndsGovernmentMovingLawCommonFashionProduceLessonsTasksEssenceBasesEducationalSecureSufficientInterpretationRighteousnessCooperationWorld Government Author:H. G. Wells
“I see the situation of man in the world of planetary technicity not as an inexitricable and inescapable destiny, but I see the task of thought precisely in this, that within its own limits it helps man as such achieve a satisfactory relationship to the essence of technicity. National Socialism did indeed go in this direction. Those people, however, were far too poorly equipped for thought to arrive at a really explicit relationship to what is happening today and has been underway for the past 300 years.” PeopleMenWorldYearsHas BeensHelpingTodayPastSituationDestinyAchieveLimitsHappeningsTasksEssenceSocialismExplicit Author:Martin Heidegger
“Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature” KnowsWayConceptsTasksEssenceProductivePenetrate Author:Niels Bohr
“The task is not primarily to have a story, but to penetrate the story, to discard the elements of it that are merely shell, or husk, that give apparent form to the story, but actually obscure the essence. In other words, the problem is to transcend the givens of a narrative.” GivingStoriesProblemFormGivenElementsTasksEssenceNarrativeShellsObscurePenetrate Author:Deborah Eisenberg
“There is a stillness in all of us that is really the essence of who we are. A stillness and a silence that doesn't move, that doesn't go anywhere and our task is to experience that while being in time.” MovingSilenceTasksEssenceWho We AreStillness Author:Roger Housden
“The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.” PeopleThinkingShouldSeemsLyingHabitTasksEssenceAccountsProcrastinationAvoidingPsychicsTollsMaking People Happy Author:James Surowiecki
“we are continually overflowing toward those who preceded us, toward our origin, and toward those who seemingly come after us. ... It is our task to imprint this temporary, perishable earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its essence can rise again “invisibly,” inside us. We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.” EarthTasksEssenceStoresInvisibleGoldenVisibleTemporaryHoneyBeesHives Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Any weapon touched by a woman, even by accident, must be cleansed with both water and prayer so that her essence would not linger, diverting the warrior who might use it next, for even the faintest touch could bring lust to that man's heart. Perhaps that meant a woman who was well trained in arms would be the superior warrior, her attention never wavering from her task.” MenWellsHeartUseMightWould BeNextWaterPrayerAttentionArmsWeaponsTasksEssenceAccidentsLustSuperiorsWarriorTouchedWaveringMight Use Book:The Dovekeepers: A Novel Source: The Dovekeepers: A Novel
“In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.” KnowsMeanStatesScienceSpeakDealsKnowledgePsychologyEventsConceptsTasksEssenceAffairSimplicityPhysicsAgain And Again Author:Niels Bohr
“I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).” IdeasPhilosophyTasksEssencePhilosophicalMethodPhilosopherPassingPassingsWelcomeDefinedAnalysisGrasping Author:Robert Adams
“The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.” FormDesignProjectsTasksEssenceTransformation Author:Vittorio Gregotti
“The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.” ChildrenPersonsSelfPlayAbleOrderGrowsGrowing UpAdultsTasksEssenceIndependence Author:Maria Montessori
“The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.” FactsLearningBuildingProgramTasksEssenceHardestProgrammingConsistentSoftwareArrivingSoftware EngineeringSpecificationsDebugging Author:Fred Brooks