External World Quotes

88 quotes by 68 authors

All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly… — Joseph Chilton Pearce
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that information that allow you to organize your perceptions… — Brian Greene
The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of… — Ivan Pavlov
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. — Alan Watts
The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer. It insists that it cannot be affected… — Sigmund Freud
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting… — Marcel Duchamp
Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and… — Sigmund Freud
One can never really give a proof of the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is something established. It is… — Simone Weil
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is… — George Orwell
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? — George Orwell
â€Ž"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
The directorâ€™s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the… — Andrei Tarkovsky
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly… — Fernando Pessoa
Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions:… — Sigmund Freud
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy talesâ€™ concern is… — Bruno Bettelheim
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. — Patrick SÃ¼skind
Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception… — Edward de Bono
The reality of living by faith as though we were already dead, of living by faith in open communion with God, and then stepped back… — Francis Schaeffer

Who Wrote These External World Quotes

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