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Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities. — Bertrand Russell
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability. — Natan Sharansky
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face… — Georg Simmel
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less,… — Jane Smiley
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. — Herbert Spencer
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. — Norman Spinrad
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. — Freya Stark
An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the… — Johannes Stark
Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes. — W. Clement Stone
Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave… — Eckhart Tolle
To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures… — Eckhart Tolle
If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's… — Leo Tolstoy
External nature is only internal nature writ large. — Swami Vivekananda
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. — Alan Watts
I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's… — Edward Zwick
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you… — Marcus Aurelius
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are… — James Madison
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud

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