Quotes About Practice

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.

The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it.

At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto social media is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Advanced yoga is not withdrawal from the world. That's a preliminary state.

A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

A man of business may talk of philosophy a man who has none may practise it.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.

The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.