Abstraction Quote by Herbert Marcuse

A fact which is not denied but whose truths are rationalized loses its objective base. It ceases to be concrete and becomes a myth…

— Paulo Freire

“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made…

— Herbert Marcuse

“..humans love complexity of thought. This they pursue on the totally baseless assumption that complexity indicates profundity or truth.”

— Walter Martin

Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.

— Marshall Ganz

“Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.”

— Robert C. Martin

Many, and I think the determining, constitutive facts remain outside the reach of the operational concept. And by virtue of this limitation this methodological…

— Herbert Marcuse

The fact that a theory so vague, so insufficiently verifiable, and so far from the criteria otherwise applied in 'hard' science has become a…

— Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of…

— Herbert Marcuse

Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and,…

— Victor Turner

Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle