External Quotes

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Waking consciousness is dreaming â€“ but dreaming constrained by external reality — Oliver Sacks
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by… — Vaclav Havel
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of… — Christopher Morley
In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external… — Pope John Paul II
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is… — George Orwell
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of… — Naomi Wolf
It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against oneâ€™s own body... On the battlefield,… — George Orwell
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts? — William Shakespeare
Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or… — Dalai Lama
When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest… — Jodi Picoult
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. — George Orwell
The only freedom that is of enduring importance is the freedom of intelligence, that is to say, freedom of observation and of judgment, exercised in… — John Dewey
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves. — Epictetus
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
Brother, Iâ€™m not depressed and havenâ€™t lost spirit. Life everywhere is life, life is in ourselves and not in the external. There will be people… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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