“Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.” FactsLightUniverseGivenSocialAcceptingPossibilityTheoryStructureFinalsRefuseAnalysisDeniedAbstractionArrestedValidationTranscendingSocial Theory Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man.” IfsMenWorldPhilosophyFactsHappensUniverseBehindsPracticeLogicHistoricalDenyFactorsFormalAbstractionObjectivityTranscendentalDeceptive Author:Herbert Marcuse
“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.” WorldMeanGodSpiritualMovingUniverseThreeLanguageNationsEasySoundLinesLibertyMillionsIntellectualLettersArmyCommandRealmsRemarkableConcentrationManipulationEvidentAbstractionOne WordDynamics Author:Novalis
“Here is God's purpose - For God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper; is the articulation not the art, objective or subjective; is loving, not the abstraction "love" commanded or entreated; is knowledge dynamic, not legislative code, not proclamation law, not academic dogma, not ecclesiastic canon. Yes, God is a verb, the most active, connoting the vast harmonic reordering of the universe from unleashed chaos of energy.” ArtSeemsLawPurposeUniverseEnergyChaosActiveObjectivesCodeAcademicDogmaAbstractionSubjectiveVerbsNounsProclamationUnleashedCanonArticulation Book:No More Secondhand God Source: No More Secondhand God