External Quotes

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Nothing external to you has any power over you. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. — Epictetus
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the… — Vaclav Havel
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some… — William Ralph Inge
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find… — David Hume
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But… — Daisaku Ikeda
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost… — Steve Jobs
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects… — Lawrence M. Krauss
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were… — James Madison
I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and… — Alanis Morissette
Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as… — Thomas Nagel
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs.… — Janet Napolitano
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of… — Ivan Pavlov
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces. — Richard Perle
I think every person should have some faith inside him, in his heart. What matters is not an external display of this faith, but the… — Vladimir Putin
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize… — John Ruskin

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