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Practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an intensifier of thought just as thought is a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

Practice (n.) is, ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠by no means, to suggest we 'apply' ideas but rather to put them to the test and modify them. The key to the personal poetic attitude of a philosopher is not to be sought in his ideas but rather in his philosophy-as-life, in his philosophical, life, his ethos.

Practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in no wise to mean the mere application of ideas. Rather, practice means to put ideas to the test and modify them.

Practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not about the 'application' of ideas but about putting them to the test and modifying them, about establishing out of them not ideas, but an ethos, a philosophy-as-life.

A Practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not subordinated to institutions theories, or ideology. It possesses, up to a point, its own specific regularities, logic, strategy, self-evidence and 'reason'. The aim of foucault's analysis is to grasp the conditions which make these practices acceptable at a given moment.

A Practice (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that place where things are said and things are done... where rules are imposed and reasons are given... where the planned and the taken for granted all meet and interconnect.