External Objects Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the…
— Saint Basil
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There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.
— Bruce Lee
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us…
— Walter Pater
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Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
— Jasper Johns
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Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
— Joseph Butler
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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The dew seemed to sparkle more brightly on the green leaves the air to rustle among them with a sweeter music and the sky itself…
— Charles Dickens
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Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one…
— Robert Lanza
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The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but…
— Johannes Peter Muller
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Happiness does not come from external objects. It comes from peace of mind. You can be famous; you can be a king, a queen, anything.…
— Frederick Lenz
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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
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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
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Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and…
— Charles Dickens
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...my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though…
— Alberto Moravia
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According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and…
— William Whewell
Who Wrote These External Objects Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 External Objects Quotes as follows: