Quotes About Engagement

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.

Happiness is a side effect of doing something that has nothing to do with it.

Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

You can't better the world by simply talking to it. Philosophy to be effective must be mechanically applied.

All actual life is encounter.

The aim of the popularization of economic studies is not to make every man an economist. The idea is to equip the citizen for his civic functions in community life.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people.

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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

I don't know that I have a single comedy philosophy. But talking about things that matter to you is a good place to start. Listening is a big part of it, too.

My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

It's no use trying to talk philosophy to our politicians. And I'm not a moral or political philosopher. I'm not interested in that.

Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do.

Being a philosopher requires a lot of thinking and no action. Being a model requires a lot of action and no thinking.

My philosophy of life: "Don't just sit around doing nothing and wasting your time—get off your butt and start doing something and wasting your time.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

How much you are able to learn is determined by how much you are involved, how much you participate, and how many actions you take.

You will lose not because of your abilities but because of your lack of desire to participate.