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“Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Whole Technology Essence Mere Realms Revealing Heed

Author:Martin Heidegger

“Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism.”

Ifs Needs Whole Understanding Violence Limits Essence Defense Rejects Exceed Anarchism Authoritarianism Pacifism

Book:Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

Source: Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta

“Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.”

Art Whole Force Understanding Music Magic Musician Essence Musical Possession Composer Organisms Irresistible Analysing

Author:Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

“Woman must come of age by herself. This is the essence of 'coming of age'-to learn how to stand alone. She must learn not to depend on another, nor to feel she must prove her strength by competing with another. In the past, she has swung between these two opposite poles of dependence and competition, of Victorianism and Feminism. Both extremes throw her off balance; neither is the center, the true center of being a whole woman. She must find her true center alone. She must become whole.”

Feels Two Whole Age Past Feminism Depends Balance Prove Essence Opposites Competition Extremes Coming Of Age Dependence Competing Stand Alone Two Opposites

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.”

“In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.”

Whole Problem Moral Acceptance Essence Oneself Outlook Memories Dreams Reflections Transcendentalism Epitome Outlook On Life

Author:Carl Jung

“Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.”

Whole Body Christian Spirit Opportunity Church Members Essence Ministry Sacraments

Author:Lesslie Newbigin

“The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.”

“When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.”

Ifs Men World Feels Whole Beautiful Universe Goal Becoming Healthy Pure Essence Delight Noble Admire Ease Awe Admiration Harmonious Nature Of Man Climax

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.”

Persons Whole Fate Essence Thirds Bureaucracy Third Person

Author:Alexandra Kollontai