External World Quotes

88 quotes by 68 authors

In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches… — Sigmund Freud
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene,… — Maria Montessori
For centuries, we in the West have thought of ourselves as rational animals whose mental capacities transcend our bodily nature. In this traditional view our… — George Lakoff
Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle… — Swami Vivekananda
You are what you've been looking for. The answer is always in you alone. There is nothing in the external world. For the external world… — Robert Adams
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous… — Henri Poincare
The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives information… — Albert Einstein
Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part… — Wilhelm Wundt
When the depressive psychosis has become manifest, its cardinal feature seems to be a mental inhibition which renders a rapport between the patient and the… — Karl Abraham
Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you don't move, yet… — Rama Swami
The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within. — Tony Hsieh
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. — Saul Bellow
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world — Jim Holt
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of… — Albert Einstein
Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues endlessly.… — Mata Amritanandamayi
For a hundred years, modern painters, stubbornly and in the face of incessant hostility, have moved, step by step, leaving superb monuments by the wayside,… — Robert Motherwell
What led me to my science and what fascinated me from a young age was the, by no means self-evident, fact that our laws of… — Max Planck
If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or nonhuman, we must first come to terms with the… — Alan Watts
...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where… — Albert Einstein
Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share… — Louis Simpson

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