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“The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.”

Humans House Audience Doors Subjects Conversation Speech Built Essence Foundation Formal Chamber Constituents House Of Commons

Book:Great Contemporaries

Source: Great Contemporaries

“Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.”

Body Form Subjects Destruction Essence Destroyed Substance Permanent Transient

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Bourgeois political economy ... never gets to see man who is its real subject. It disregards the essence of man and his history and is thus in the profoundest sense not a 'science of people' but of non-people and of an inhuman world of objects and commodities.”

People Men World Real Political Economy Subjects Objects Essence Commodity Bourgeois Disregard Inhuman Political Economy

Book:The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

Source: The Essential Marcuse: Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

“The True is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development. Of the Absolute it must be said that it is essentially a result, that only in the end is it what it truly is; and that precisely in this consists its nature, viz. to be actual, subject, the spontaneous becoming of itself.”

Said Ends Whole Truth Results Subjects Development Becoming Essence Absolutes Spontaneous

Book:Phenomenology of Spirit

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

“I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring throughout the cosmos. Tracing it to such exalted origins, I begin to understand more deeply the essence of our art and its elemental power over the human soul. Man, being a creature of Nature and subject to the cosmic influences that inform all earthly beings, must needs have been under the sway of that music from his earliest days; his organism reverberated with its vibrations and received it's rhythmic impulses.”