Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.
Discipline is a given; the choice is whether it is applied internally or externally.
The greatest power we have in life is not external, but internal.
The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.
Internal conviction drives external action.
I’ve lived long enough to realise that, if I don’t take authority and develop mastery of my emotions, external circumstances will inevitably make my life a misery. Today, regardless of the possibility that I have a suspicion, I channel and deciph...
Living erotically is opening oneself up to nature-- externally and within.
I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
We will not reform the yuan until the time is right even if there is external pressure.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external, the other too much inner sense. Seldom could nature achieve a balance between the two—a complete constitution of genius. O...
Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us to let go as we begin identify with it rather than with all the h...
The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, ...
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after a condition of freedom. God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor. External freedom is only an asp...
One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it s...
Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.
