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The external world is committed to helping Georgia settle its problems. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. -- Wilhelm Dilthey
But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. -- Alan Watts
Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment. -- Liu Bolin
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. -- Jean Piaget
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 external world more difficult. -- Karl Abraham
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 and understand the external world. -- Brian Greene
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. -- Kurt Cobain
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 of that total environment which we name the external world. -- Wilhelm Wundt
However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think. -- Penelope Fitzgerald
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 the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism. -- Ivan Pavlov
There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware. -- Richard Axel
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway. -- Graham Moore
I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us. -- Alice Hoffman
All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear. -- Max Heindel
You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. -- Saul Bellow
You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God. -- Bill Johnson
In our external world we create and attract with our beliefs, thoughts, emotions and perceptions. -- Debasish Mridha
To abandon the principle of simplicity would be to abandon all reasoning about the external world -- Jim Holt
The drive for progress doesn't wait for the external world to say "It's time to change." -- James C. Collins
The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world. -- Susan L. Taylor
Positive thinking is about remembering that our internal world creates and is more powerful than the external. -- J. P. Blake
Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. -- Albert Einstein
Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong. -- Idries Shah
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge. -- Patrick SÃ¼skind
The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure. -- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience. -- Michael Neill
My definition of confidence is how you feel about yourself, and not letting the external world define you. -- Bonnie St. John
By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world. -- Ernst Haeckel
envy is one of the scorpions of the mind, often having little to do with the objective, external world ... -- Bonnie Friedman
The battle is lost or won in the secret places of the will before God, never first in the external world. -- Oswald Chambers
The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause. -- Swami Vivekananda
This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. -- Aldous Huxley
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. -- Albert Einstein
What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. -- Swami Vivekananda
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
As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within. -- Eckhart Tolle
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? -- George Orwell
O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day. -- Santosh Kalwar
Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world. -- Olive Schreiner
The reason why clutter clearing is effective is that while you are putting your external world in order there are corresponding changes going on internally too. -- Karen Kingston
My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself. -- Johannes Kepler
dogma and shrinking from the external world are at one limit of the range of belief. At the other are science and poetry and, indeed, reality. -- Muriel Rukeyser
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world. -- Olive Schreiner
It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world. -- Sigmund Freud
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 you attain. -- Rama Swami
The Sun-Paul must consider only one thing: what is the relation of this or that external reaction of the animal to the phenomena of the external world? -- Ivan Pavlov
In man's brain the impressions from outside are not merely registered; they produce concepts and ideas. They are the imprint of the external world upon the human brain. -- Victor Frederick Weisskopf
As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face! -- Ravi Gomatam
There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our Creator has given us five senses to help us survive threats from the external world, and a sixth sense, our healing system, to help us survive internal threats. -- Bernie Siegel
Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind's images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being. -- R.W. Southern
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 bodily objects of various kinds. -- Albert Einstein
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. -- Morris Graves
Faith in anything, be it positive or negative, produces results. Putting faith in fear generates destructive results, beginning with the disintegration of our ability to relate confidently to the external world. -- Caroline Myss
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world. -- Daniel Mackler
Heading towards that inner home will take you places-both inside yourself and in the external world-which your heart will recognize as its native environment, even though you have never been there before. -- Martha Beck
And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them. -- Alan Sokal
Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world. -- Sigmund Freud
The purpose of art is... to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed. -- Max Scheler
The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death. -- Henri Nouwen
The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world. -- Daniel Levitin
The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside. -- Norman O. Brown
Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason. -- Francis Schaeffer
A person is an objective entity, which as a definite subject has the closest contacts with the whole (external) world and is most intimately involved with it precisely because of its inwardness, its interior life. -- John Paul II
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world. -- Ramana Maharshi

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