External Quotes

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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the… — Saint Basil
And I also see how this body influences external images: it gives back movement to them. — Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make… — Henri Bergson
While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer… — Larry Bird
It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we… — H. P. Blavatsky
We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will… — H. P. Blavatsky
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires… — Daniel Boone
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating… — Constantin Brancusi
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. — William Throsby Bridges
God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist… — Orson Scott Card
Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. — Dale Carnegie
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world,… — Kurt Cobain
Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external. — Martin Amis
I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the… — A. R. Ammons
Compassion and love is the source of external and internal peace and is also the root of racial survival. — Dalai Lama
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of… — Emile Durkheim
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will… — Julian Huxley
This re-appearance of the doctrine of freewill serves to support that of the pretension of the natural man to be not irremediably fallen, for this… — John Nelson Darby
Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and to… — John Dewey
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being. As… — Eckhart Tolle

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