It closes up the issues of all knowledge, and sunders every ligament that binds us to practical life.
The Stoics have connected philosophy most intimately with the duties of practical life.
The principles which Fichte had developed in his Theory of Science he applied to practical life, especially to the theory of rights and morals.
Let us forget all philosophical controversies about realism and idealism; let us try to reconstruct for ourselves a simplicity, a virginal and candid glance, freeing us from the habits contracted in the course of practical life.
For our language has been formed in view of practical life, not of pure knowledge.
The entrance of a true Probationer into the terrible ordeal of Practical Life is like that into the miraculous cavern, by which, legend informs us, Saint Patrick converted Ireland.
It is, moreover, a sort of imagination belonging to very few people: certain artists and some eccentric or unbalanced minds, scarcely ever found outside the esthetic or practical life.
The work of the imagination whence have arisen the myths, religious conceptions, and the first attempts at a scientific explanation may seem at first disinterested and foreign to practical life.
For not only does our general theory of the universe and of the nature of the order which pervades it, hang upon the answer; but the rules of practical life must be deeply affected by it.
The work which the scholar undertakes should not be measured by the effect which the same appeal to concentrated attention would make on the average man of practical life.
Philosophy, according to Zeno and other Stoics, was intimately connected with the duties of practical life.
It is in science, especially when applied to practical life, that the moderns show their great superiority to the most enlightened nations of antiquity.
But we do not see the exhibition of genius in what we call science, at least in its application to practical life.
In practical life, the wisest and soundest men avoid speculation.
None of our actions in practical life is related to tones from musical instruments, and yet the tones of a symphony may arouse in us the deepest emotions, the most solemn feelings and the most joyful ones.
In practical life we discriminate between voluntary and involuntary attention.
No question in practical life is more important than this: How can this desirable knowledge of the economic effects of a tariff be obtained?
It may be asked, if the methods and language of science correspond to those of practical life, why is not the every-day discipline of that life as good as the discipline of science?
The form which this misapprehension usually takes is that of a failure to appreciate the character of scientific method, and especially its analogy to the methods of practical life.
However clearly and rationally the individual thinks about the important questions of practical life, he has to yield to the tyranny of traditional and often quite irrational customs.
Civilization in the narrower sense, characterized by a high development of art and science and the manifold application of them to practical life in legislation, education, etc.
They will be greatly altered if reason is permitted to have its way in practical life, and the present evil customs, based on antiquated dogmas, are suppressed.
But the influence of the Christian faith, with all the gay coloring which the fairy-tales of the Bible added to its structure of dogmas, was seen much more in practical life.
Practical life is such a sum, in which your duty multiplied into your capacity and divided by your circumstances gives you the fourth term in the proportion, which is your deserts, with great accuracy.
These limits are fixed mainly by the demands of practical life.
Interest in knowledge for the sake of knowledge, in thinking for the sake of the free play of thought, is necessary then to the emancipation of practical life--to make it rich and progressive.
The life of thought alone seems to me to have enough elasticity and immensity, to be free enough from the irreparable; practical life makes me afraid.
He approves all my defects, my childishness, my aversion to practical life, my antipathy to the utilitarians, my distrust of all desire.
Practical life as a sort of vacation was welcome, but as it became the continuing business of his time, and that other world of the artistic faculty was now, in turn, known only by visiting glimpses, the look of the facts changed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "practical life" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
