Sentence examples for practical truth from inspiring English sources

"It is a practical truth," the administration official said, that without a deal, "our Congress would not likely follow through on the assistance promises we've made, nor would other partners".

Mr. Obama's ability to recognize the poetic truth of Eliot's conservatism, while still embracing the practical truth of liberalism, is what makes his letter not just a curiosity but also a hint at the complexity of his mature politics.

By the supreme moral law Bolzano means "a practical truth [i.e., a true ought proposition] from which every other practical truth can be derived objectively, i.e., as the consequence from its 'ground'" (RW I, 228; cf. also RW I, 44, 244, 256, RW IV, 27, 217, 221, and WL II, 348, WL IV, 178).

So, here is the practical truth: Exercise is for developing fitness.

Maybe that's where the tired cliché 'Stop and Smell the Roses' applies...and perhaps clichés are clichés because in so many there is an enormous amount of practical truth in them.

Each memoir should be marked with a ratings code that describes just how well the story adheres to what most of us would recognize as practical truth: Either you own a dog or you don't.

Their skepticism and their ability to isolate practical truths enable them to provide rich humor and incisive perspective as they redefine issues and question basic assumptions.

It resides in the insight that the nature of practical truths should be explained in terms of the constitutive features of practical reasoning.

It must therefore be a basic truth, i.e., a truth that does not have an objective "ground", but can only be an objective "ground" of other (practical) truths (WL II, 375, RW I, 229, RW IV, 207).

(i) There are truths, he says, which are accessible to natural reason, that is, to ordinary experience (including the specialized observations of natural scientists), insight, and reflection; and these include practical truths about good and evil, right and wrong.

It can function not only as an independent endeavor in search for abstract truth, but also as intentional pursuit of practical truths, which to be applied in everyday life.