#external

Now all my tales are based on the fundemental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.... To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#meaning-of-life #objective #real-externality #life

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

#definition #doing #external #external world #freedom

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#anything #essence #essentially #express #exterior

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#call #external #how #i #i see

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

#canal #communicating #digestive #entire #external

A two-headed man should have twice the IQ, and the ability to have internal dialogues externally.
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— Jarod Kintz

#external #head #intelligence #internal-dialogue #iq

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#everything #external #had #i #just

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#internal #speech #thought

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people. ↗

— Richard Perle

#control #dictatorships #exert #external #internal

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#external #god #necessarily #religion #search