External Quotes

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Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of… — Olavo de Carvalho
Men's activities are occupied into ways -- in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind. — William James
Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work… — Karl Marx
The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does… — Karl Marx
The senses do not enable us to cognize any entity in its Being; they merely serve to announce the ways in which 'external' Things within-the-world… — Martin Heidegger
A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know. — Anni Albers
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from… — Max Bill
Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multi-cultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation… — George Ripley
For a prince should have two fears: one, internal concerning his subjects; the other, external, concerning foreign powers. From the latter he can always defend… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the… — Thomas Carlyle
The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal… — Jefferson Davis
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it… — Johannes Kepler
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has… — Leo Tolstoy
Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so… — Seneca the Younger
All human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore, no external description of one's being, whether based on… — John Shelby Spong
Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the… — Gautama Buddha
Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by… — John Granger
Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths… — Henry Chesbrough

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