Practicals Quotes - Page 26

• When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Different, Study

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• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  Ursula Burns

  Mother, Self, Pragmatic

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• I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Laughing, Able, Complicated

  "I Will Fear No Evil" by Robert A. Heinlein, Ace Books, (p. 442), 1987.

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• A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Imagination

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Peace, Lying, Opportunity

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Successful, Matter, Financial

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher (p. 65), April 16, 2002.

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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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• The difficulty in our education up till now lies, for the most part, in the fact that knowledge did not refine itself into will, to application of itself, to pure practice. The realists felt the need and supplied it, though in a most miserable way, by cultivating idea-less and fettered "practical men." Most college students are living examples of this sad turn of events. Trained in the most excellent manner, they go on training; drilled they continue drilling.

  Max Stirner

  Lying, College, Men

  Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub

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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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• One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Hate, Independent, School

  Journal entry for April 15, 1937. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 14, 1993.

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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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• The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

  Julien Benda

  Modern, Defiance, Cult

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.146, Transaction Publishers

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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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• It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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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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• Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands.

  Camille Paglia

  Philosophical, Thinking, Hands

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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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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• If you find that you're spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you're spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice.

  Donald Knuth

  Practice, Attention, Spending

  "Theory and Practice". Theoretical Computer Science, 1991.

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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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• I cannot... perceive any ground for hoping that any practical good would, while the funding system exists in its present extent, result from the adoption of any of those projects, which have professed to have in view what is called Parliamentary Reform... when the funding system, from whatever cause, shall cease to operate upon civil and political liberty, there will be no need of projects for parliamentary reform. The parliament will, as far as shall be necessary, then reform itself.

  William Cobbett

  Views, Adoption, Political

  Political Register, March 15, 1806.

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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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• Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

  James Connolly

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

  1909 Socialism Made Easy.

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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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• Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Passion, Objectivity

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.40, Ardent Media

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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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