Practicals Quotes - Page 16

• I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.

  Roy Chapman Andrews

  Dream, Consideration, Clutter

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• Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Might, Effects, Whole

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.204, Courier Corporation

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• I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Hair, Logic

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• The truth of practical intellect is understood not as conformity to an extramental being but as conformity to a right desire; the end is no longer to know what is, but to bring into existence that which is not yet.

  Jacques Maritain

  Desire, Conformity, Ends

  "Action: the Perfection of Human Life" by Jacques Maritain, Sewanee Review, LV (pp. 3-4), 1948.

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• A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Blasphemy, Humans, Human Beings

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (2013). “Wanted: A Husband: (With Original Illustrations)”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him to do so in the name of his practical attributes. Formerly man was divine because he had been able to acquire the concept of justice, the idea of law, the sense of God; today he is divine because he has been able to create equipment which makes him the master of matter.

  Julien Benda

  Spiritual, Men, Law

  Julien Benda, Roger Kimball (2017). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.57, Routledge

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• There is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel. I think one of the most difficult things is every Sunday I am up there ministering, and so you have to have a fresh word, you have to be practical, you need to keep people's attention and so that comes around every seven days.

  Joel Osteen

  Sunday, Thinking, People

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.

  Julien Benda

  Beautiful, Struggle, Passion

  "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

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• There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Spiritual, Women, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (1912). “- Hedda Gabler. The Master Builder. From Ibsen's Workshop. v.2- Brand. Peer Gynt. v.3- Emperor & Galilean. A Doll's House. Ghosts. v.4- Little Eyolf. John Gabriel Borkman. When We Dead Awaken. The Wild Duck. v.5- Lady Inger of Ostrat. The feast of Solhoug. Love's Comedy. The Vikings at Helgeland. The Pretenders. v.6- The League of Youth. Pillars of Society. Rosenersholm. The Lady from the Sea”

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• The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation to put a better face on evil than it normally wears.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Race, Evil, Faces

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “The Financier”, p.217, Open Road Media

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• The practical reason for freedom is that freedom seems to be the only condition under which any kind of substantial moral fiber can be developed - we have tried law, compulsion and authoritarianism of various kinds, and the result is nothing to be proud of.

  Albert J. Nock

  Moral Fiber, Law, Proud

  "On Doing the Right Thing". "The American Mercury" Magazine, 1925.

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• Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?

  Novalis

  Philosophy, Bread, Immortality

  As quoted in the essay "Novalis" by Thomas Carlyle, 1829.

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• Intellect is neither practical nor impractical; it is extra-practical.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Intellect, Extras

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.30, Vintage

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• The intellectual's ... playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to most men a perverse luxury; in the United States the play of the mind is perhaps the only form of play that is not looked upon with the most tender indulgence. His piety is likely to seem nettlesome, if not actually dangerous. And neither quality is considered to contribute very much to the practical business of life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Men, Play, Luxury

  "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life". Book by Richard Hofstadter (p. 33), 1974.

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• Whatever the practical origins of aesthetic discernment may have been, it has been used to create great works of art. When the very loftiest human creations are seen to derive from humble origins and functions, what needs revision is not our esteem for these creations but our notion of nobility.

  Robert Nozick

  Art, Humble, Needs

  Robert Nozick (1994). “The Nature of Rationality”, p.181, Princeton University Press

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• The current demoralization of the art world is attributable at least in part to museum interference, ideological and practical, with ongoing creation in art.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Museums, Ongoing

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.283, University of Chicago Press

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• Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Kindness, Philosophy, Grateful

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• If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

  Talcott Parsons

  Bourgeoisie, Materialism, Ends

  Max Weber, Talcott Parsons (2003). “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.

  William Empson

  Christian, Buddhist, Different

  William Empson (1984). “Collected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• No practical biologist interested in sexual reproduction would be led to work out the detailed consequences experienced by organisms having three or more sexes; yet what else should he do if he wishes to understand why the sexes are, in fact, always two?

  Ronald Fisher

  Sex, Two, Work Out

  "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

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• Whenever I am embraced by land and seascape I draw ideas for new sculptures; new forms to touch and walk around, new people to embrace, with an exactitude of form that those without sight can hold and realize... ...It is essentially practical and passionate.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Sight, Land, Ideas

  Studio International 171, p.280, June 1966.

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• My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

  James Prescott Joule

  Principles, Development, Firsts

  "On Electro-Magnetic Forces". Annals of Electricity, Volume 4, p. 484, March 10, 1840.

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• The science of political economy is essentially practical, and applicable to the common business of human life. There are few branches of human knowledge where false views may do more harm, or just views more good.

  Thomas Malthus

  Views, Political, Branches

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.246, Penguin UK

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• The first business of philosophy is to account for things as they are; and till our theories will do this, they ought not to be the ground of any practical conclusion.

  Thomas Malthus

  Philosophy, Firsts, Theory

  Thomas Robert Malthus “An Essay on the Principle of Population, Or, a View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness: With an Inquiry Into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal Or Mitigation of the Evils which it Occasions”, Cambridge University Press

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• it's just that in C++ and the like, you don't trust anybody, and in CLOS you basically trust everybody. The practical result is that thieves and bums use C++ and nice people use CLOS.

  Erik Naggum

  Nice, People, Thieves

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