Practical Philosophy Quotes

“He is capable of turning everything into anything--snow into skin, skin into blossoms, blossoms into sugar, sugar into powder, and powder back into little drifts of snow--for all that matters to him, apparently, is to make things into what they are not, which is doubtless proof that he cannot stand being anywhere for long, wherever he happens to be.”
― Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities

“Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“The 'practical' man... is one who recognizes only material needs, who realizes that men must have food for the body, but is oblivious of the necessity of providing food for the mind.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“If philosophy gets you lost in the labyrinth of symbols that distance us from reality, then it is part of the problem; if it motivates positive action that can create a better world, philosophy is usually a gift.”
― Oli Anderson, Personal Revolutions: A Short Course in Realness

“Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply.”
― Oli Anderson, Dialogue / Ego - Real Communication

“[...two main divisions of philosophy.] The questions in the first group, the questions about being and becoming, have to do with what is or happens in the world. Such questions belong to the division of philosophy that is called theoretical or speculative. The questions in the second group, the questions concerning good and evil, or right and wrong, have to do with what ought to be done or sought, and they belong to the division of philosophy that is sometimes called practical, and is more accurately called normative. [How to Read a Book (1972), P. 268]”
― Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

“Life is easy but life is not easy. Which message is for the mind and which one for the heart. That is the ultimate question”
― The Suited Monk

“A genius is someone who allows us to see things and realise. Something we didn't realise before. Children are geniuses. We were all children once”
― The Suited Monk

“Sin, but sin lawfully.”
― The Suited Monk

“What is the meaning of life, is the same answer to the question, what is the meaning of leadership.”
― Raf Adams - The Suited Monk

“We have so much knowledge, but so little understanding.”
― Raf Adams, The Suited Monk: Finding Your Life's Purpose and True Happiness

“Sometimes there is so much external noise going around that we lose ourselves in the process.”
― Raf Adams, The Suited Monk: Finding Your Life's Purpose and True Happiness

“In times, it is better to be practical than to be real.”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Exemplars of virtue move us more than the ethical maxims of philosophy.”
― Paul Uponi, Muscular Christianity: A Case for Spiritual and Physical Fitness

“Pragmatism, by its very name, poses above all as a 'pholosophy of action'; its more or less avowed assumption is that man only has needs of a practical order, material ones and, together with these, sentimental ones. It means, then, the doing away with intellectuality; but, if this is so, why go on wanting to evolve theories? That is rather hard to understand; and if pragmatism, like skepticism, which it only differs from with regard to action, wished to conform to its own standards, it would have to limit itself to a mere mental attitude, which it cannot even seek to justify logically without giving itself the lie; but there is no doubt that it is very difficult to keep strictly within such bounds.”
― René Guénon, East and West