. . . the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches. . . Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.
Life is in balance. The swings in the mind are there to give you the experience, and to let you discover the you within you. . . That balance and swing lets your standard be tested. You cannot hold to something external. You must find your own depth and test it, confirm it.
A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
It is the property of the religious spirit to be the most refining of all influences. No external advantages, no culture of the tastes, no habit of command, no association with the elegant, or even depth of affection, can bestow that delicacy and that grandeur of bearing which belong only to the mind accustomed to celestial conversation,--all else is but gilt and cosmetics, beside this, as expressed in every look and gesture.
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
When I make my own music, there is no external producer. I just do everything as quickly as possible. I try not to overthink things.
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes were the 'invention' of the external vanishing point and the internal combustion engine.
Yoga is for internal cleansing, not external exercising. Yoga means true self-knowledge.
Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.
Art begins when a man, with a purpose of communicating to other people a feeling he once experienced, calls it up again within himself and expresses it by certain external signs.
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.
It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.
Until you have the inner discipline that brings calmness of mind, external facilities and conditions will never bring the joy and happiness you seek. On the other hand, if you possess this inner quality, calmness of mind, a degree of stability within, even if you lack the various external factors that you would normally require to be happy, it will still be possible to live a happy and joyful life.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Be the same still mountain self and mountain peace no matter what the external conditions.
To the zealot overcome by his piety and to the journeyman of ideas concerned only with his marketable mental skills, the beginning and end of ideas lies in their efficacy with respect to some goal external to intellectual processes.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.