Practicals Quotes - Page 36

• Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

  Hans Selye

  Faith, Science, Purpose

  Hans Selye (1964). “From dream to discovery: on being a scientist”

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• Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Aristocracy, Definitions

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• Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems, both by rulers and ruled. The virtue of a person being ruled is not practical wisdom but correct opinion; he is rather like a person who makes the pipes, while the ruler is the one who can play them.

  Aristotle

  Play, Political, Special

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• History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Historical, Intellectual, Use

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• Living in a house where domestic violence goes on every day never feels like home. You don't have to suffer in silence. I'm giving my full support to this website as it will give proper and practical advice about what to do if you feel afraid. Remember, you're not alone.

  Beverley Knight

  Home, Remember You, Remembers You

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• The equally is a political theory, but no a practical politics.

  P. D. James

  Political, Political Theory, Theory

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• I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

  Frederick Douglass

  Good Luck, Men, Thinking

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.338, Hackett Publishing

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• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, World, Absence

  "A Factless Autobiography". Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.

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• There is nothing so practical as a good theory.

  Kurt Lewin

  Theory, Practicality

  Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper

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• We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Lying, Judgement, May

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• The practical revolutionary will understand Goethe's 'conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action'; in action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one's individual conscience and the good of mankind.

  Saul Alinsky

  Luxury, Decision, Doe

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.25, Vintage

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• For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  People, Intellectual, Benefits

  "What's So Great About Christianity" by Dinesh D'Souza, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 23, 2007.

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• In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Practical Life, Compelled

  Baruch Spinoza (2014). “Letters to Friend and Foe”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

  Miguel

  Should, Fashionable, Aesthetics

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• In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Spiritual, Men, Order

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• Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

  Karen X. Tulchinsky

  Sex, Advice, Support

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• Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the Kabbalah in everyday life.

  Neal Stephenson

  Meditation, Everyday, Kabbalah

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.274, Spectra

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• Veganism isn’t just a strict vegetarian diet; it is a complete philosophical viewpoint. It is practical in outlook, simple to understand and aspires to the highest environmental and spiritual values. I am sure it holds the key to a future lifestyle for a humane planetary guardianship.

  Howard Lyman

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Simple

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• The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.

  Robert Greene

  Keys, Years, Use

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.118, Profile Books

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• Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Common Sense, Sound

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.218, Ravenio Books

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• Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

  Brenda Ueland

  People, Advice, Listening

  Brenda Ueland (1993). “Strength to Your Sword Arm: Selected Writings”, Holy Cow Press

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• The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Dream, Moving, Men

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• It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result — ruthlessness in political life.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Moral Absolutism, Practice, Political

  Richard Hofstadter (2011). “The Age of Reform”, p.16, Vintage

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• Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

  H. L. Mencken

  Art, Men, Agony

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “American Language Supplement 2”, p.563, Knopf

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• I've often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  World, Rooms, Mystery

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