External Objects Quotes

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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
There will be calmness, tranquility, when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed. — Bruce Lee
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
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
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
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
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
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
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
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

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