Philosophical Quote by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.

— Leo Tolstoy

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

— Rebecca Goldstein

One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much…

— Guy Finley

“Principle without practice is like raw meat, which is good to have in your kitchen, but basically useless until you cook it in the…

— Abhijit Naskar

[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

— Jeremy Bentham

Whether things get better or worse depends to a considerable extent on our own actions. The recommendation of a yoga practice follows the principle…

— T. K. V. Desikachar

If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have…

— Seneca the Younger

“No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.”

— Paul Auster

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was…

— Thomas Nagel

“Fiecare dintre noi a inteles, probabil, atunci ca nu exista "mai tarziu". Ca tot ce nu traim ramane netrait. Eu, oricum, aveam gust de…

— Octavian Paler

As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching…

— Ron Howard