Quotes About Praxis

#1. In modern praxis lost positions are salvaged most often when the play is highly complicated with many sharp dynamic variations to be calculated.

Leonid Shamkovich

#2. Liberation is a praxis : the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

Paulo Freire

#3. The common moral praxis of Jews and Christians is most definitely theologically informed by the doctrine we share in common: The human person, male and female, is created in the image of God.

David Novak

#4. For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Paulo Freire

#5. Praxis is about applying one's knowledge to challenge oppressive systems and unequal traditions. It is related to the well-known phrase "the personal is political" espoused by many advocates of the second-wave women's movement.

Michele Tracy Berger

#6. Great praxis demands great piety.

Sallie McFague

#7. The Auschwitz praxis was based on a new principle: for one portion of mankind, existence itself is a crime, punishable by humiliation, torture, and death. And the new world produced by this praxis included two kinds of inhabitants, those who were given the "punishment" and those who administered it.

Emil Fackenheim

#8. P68- there is no true word that is not at the same time a praxis. Thus, to speak a true word is to transform the world.

Paulo Freire

#9. Prophetic pragmatism attempts to keep alive the sense of alternative ways of life and of struggle based on the best of the past. In this sense, the praxis of prophetic pragmatism is tragic action with revolutionary intent, usually reformist consequences and always visionary outlook.

Cornel West

#10. People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. It would appear, then, that Jesus' praxis was to relate to all people, even the least, last, and lost, even notorious sinners, and allow them to be healed or helped by him without prior change of life or behavior.

Ben Witherington III

#12. There is a Greek word that is called "Praxis" and that means the integration of your beliefs with your behavior.

John Assaraf

#13. [Peace praxis is] a peace process that deals with conflict integratively.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#14. To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah.

George Steiner

#15. I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#16. Education is thus constantly remade in the praxis. In order to be it must become. Its "duration" (in the Bergsonian meaning of the word) is found in the interplay of opposites permanence and change.

Paulo Freire

#17. Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Paulo Freire

#18. Your home is your refuge.

George Carlin

#19. I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

Randy Jackson

#20. People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.

Cynthia Voigt

#21. No, it's not invented! What would be the point of 'inventing' Nazism?

Laurent Binet

#22. I remember, when I have preached at different times in the country, and sometimes here, that my whole soul has agonized over men, every nerve of my body has been strained and I could have wept my very being out of my eyes and carried my whole frame away in a flood of tears, if I could but win souls

Charles Spurgeon

#23. What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn't say, what one does and doesn't do, what one thinks and doesn't think.

Michel Onfray

#24. I think the sexiest thing is a hat. It's very sexy!

Dakota Johnson

#25. Though his invention worked superbly [ ... ] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.

Vernor Vinge

#26. She was going to eat warm, buttered bread and feel better.

Jill Shalvis

#27. Apple cider vinegar and honey has been ingested for years as a mixture. It helps with aging, with detoxification and as a natural healer.

Donna Langely

#28. Find someone who will change your life, not just your relationship status.

Abdul'Rauf Hashmi

#29. Knowing the truth has meaning only as a first step to living the truth day by day.

Nancy Pearcey

#30. Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

Mark Leiren-Young

#31. I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.

Harry Browne