External Quotes

896 quotes by 617 authors

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in… — Elizabeth A. Johnson
Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are… — Jason Stanley
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual… — Thomas Nagel
I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body : they transmit movement to it. — Henri Bergson
You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of your origination. You… — Wayne Dyer
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of… — Ivan Pavlov
Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the… — Karen Armstrong
The strongest wish of a vast number of earnest men and women to-day is for a basis of religious belief which shall rest, not upon… — William Ralph Inge
How does one get rid of fear? Ramana: What is fear? It is only a thought. If there is anything besides the Self there is… — Ramana Maharshi
The fuhrer of the Third Reich has freed the German man from his external humiliation and from the inner weakness caused by Marxism - and… — Conrad Grober
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. — Albert Einstein
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. — Raymond Carver
Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and… — Charles Darwin
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of… — Anthony Storr
Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to… — Hillary Carlip
Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that… — Michel de Montaigne
In classical understanding, education is the attempt to "lead out" from within the self a core of wisdom that has the power to resist falsehood… — Parker J. Palmer
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies. — Ambrose

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