Circumstances Quote by Martha Beck

“Gross circumstances, subtle circumstances, and circumstances of the speech are of the non-Self (not mine); and dependent on an external power. External circumstances are…

— Dada Bhagwan

"Externality" is a different phenomenon from akrasia and doesn't always come with it. The set of desires and actions from which one feels alienated…

— Nomy Arpaly

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion,…

— Anonymous

“Intentional states function only given a set of Background capacities that do not themselves consist in intentional phenomena. Thus, for example, beliefs, desires, and…

— John Rogers Searle

Nothing in the outer world makes you feel any way. You decide what you want to feel, and then use outer people and events…

— Alan Cohen

Perception of a state is not the state.

— M. John Harrison

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

— Jaron Lanier

You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no…

— Jane Roberts

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

— Pearl S. Buck

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment

— Henri Bergson

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For…

— Karl Marx

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

— Michael Neill