#inner life

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

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If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#become #different #inner #inner life #life

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#artist #expression #great #great art #his

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times. ↗

— Franz Marc

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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#free #harmony #inner #inner life #life

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#action #attention #both #cases #choice