The second great channel through which the impulse towards the control of procreation for the elevation of the race is entering into practical life is by the general adoption, by the educated—of methods for the prevention of conception except when conception is deliberately desired.

In the Fragments, sensations are more profound and richly clarified through deliberate and explicit pattern; emotions are given a sequence and development such as the exigencies of practical life rarely permit.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

For me, it was like this: pronounced antipathy to conversing about matters of practical life, the future, dates, politics. You are fixated on the intellectual sphere as a man possessed may be fixated on the sexual: under its spell, sucked into it.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child‘s individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Religion and practical life are not different. To take sanyas (renunciation) is not to abandon life. The real spirit is to make the country, your family, work together instead of working only for your own. The step beyond is to serve humanity and the next step is to serve God.

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

Why separate your spiritual life and your practical life? To an integral being, there is no such distinction.

Let the standard of everybody‘s mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don’t like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For…
things are for the most part very simple in books, and in practical life very complex.

I have a wife, a son, and I’ve had some practical life experience.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don’t use the stuff – well, it might as well be dead.