Quotes About External

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

the spirit of Heidegger's dictum that thinking and thanking belong together, so do reading and collecting. The professional reader, the scholar, or the pandit becomes the agent of a novel form of concentration: indeed, he not only collects, he turns himself into a collection, a person filled up with knowledge that moves to and fro between internal and external memories.

The keyword const doesn't turn a variable into a constant! A symbol with the const qualifier merely means that the symbol cannot be used for assignment. This makes the value read-only through that symbol ; it does not prevent the value from being modified through some other means internal (or even external) to the program.

The changing conditions of history touch only the surface of the show.

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

Being thought of as sexy makes one employable, but it's not going to last forever, so I try not to think about it. It's like something that exists outside of me.

Our culture is an edifice built of external memories, a way of fending off mortality.

maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.

You are everywhere partial and entire. You are on the inside of everything and on the outside.

Nevertheless, in whatever form idolatrous religion appeared, precisely because it was derived from the external, and increasingly lost the factor of spiritual revelation, it could develop in no other way than in visible forms.

The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.

However much the soil, for example, can influence men, this influence will vary according the the particular race in question. Poor soil may stimulate one race to the highest achievements; in another race, it may be the cause of poverty and finally of malnourishment, with all its consequences. Though subject to external circumstances, it is the internal characteristics of a people that always determine the outcome. That which reduces one race to starvation drives another to hard work.

Le predisposizioni profonde dei popoli determinano gli effetti dell'influenza esterna. Ciò che conduce gli uni a crepare di fame, educa invece gli altri al duro lavoro

The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else.

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.

Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within al Qaeda.

Once you identify the intrinsically motivated people, you realize that fancy degrees can actually be a negative - that some of the people who have them are more focused on how others perceive them.

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 that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses.

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

For dealing with blessings which come to us from outside we need a firm foundation based on reason and education; without this foundation, people keep on seeking these blessings and heaping them up but can never satisfy the insatiable appetites of their souls.

Life becomes what we see everyday in silence during meditation practice. Internal happiness, strength and abundance shines externally.

Scala separates the "goods" (i.e., the good things which make life happy) of this world into three classes: goods of the body, goods of the soul, and a third category of what he calls "external goods.