Quotes Tagged "practical"

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

You need mountains, long staircases don't make good hikers.

In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

When you find that a theology has nothing more to offer than what the world already offers, then that theology as a theology is impractical, and therefore, useless.

Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.

With no positivity, there is no hope; with no negativity, there is no improvement.

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said. “Nothing about religion is simple.

Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

Judged by all practical standards, the value of my mathematical life is nil; and outside mathematics it is trivial anyhow. I have just one chance of escaping a verdict of complete triviality, that I may be judged to have created something worth creating. And that I have created something is undeniable: the question is about its value. The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematicians, or of any of the other artists, great or small, who have left some kind of memorial behind them.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

There's the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day - playdates, doctors' appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.

Compulsory arbitration is a practical instrument of pacification and, as such, it can and should be enacted by the Hague Conference.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.

I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Changes occur after taking practical steps, not by chanting slogans and giving speeches.