Quotes About Interiority

#1. For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

Alain Badiou

#2. Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

Eugene H. Peterson

#3. Nothing trains you better to write fiction than being really good at writing about your own interiority.

Emily Gould

#4. And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

Zadie Smith

#5. Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.

Sven Birkerts

#6. When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

Emily Gould

#7. Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Emmanuel Levinas

#8. I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

Aleksandar Hemon

#9. Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.

Lee Siegel

#10. Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very innermost shrine of your being.

Rajneesh

#11. What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority

Mu Xin

#12. Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

Jurgen Habermas

#13. In my work, I see couples who no longer wait for an invitation into their partner's interiority, but instead demand admittance, as if they are entitled to unrestricted access into the private thoughts of their loved ones

Esther Perel

#14. It will be like watching one of her own dreams on television. Some vast and deeply personal insult to any ordinary notion of interiority.
An experience outside culture.

William Gibson

#15. Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion is relating with others, sharing with others.

Osho

#16. Scientists do what writers do. They also live with an active interiority, only the ongoing speculation in their heads is about relations in the physical world rather than the psychological one.

Vivian Gornick

#17. Reichert offers us a Heracleitean stream of self-reflection into which we can step more than once, for
we can see ourselves empathically mirrored in it: his interiority is our own.

Donald Kuspit

#18. The surface of things gives enjoyment, their interiority gives life.

Piet Mondrian

#19. Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Jane Hirshfield

#20. I guess for me the greatest injustice is to see people robbed of that interiority and process of association.

Hank Azaria

#21. I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Ken Wilber

#22. Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

John Prendergast

#23. Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

Mel Torme

#24. I remember Detroit feeling really unsafe, feeling scared a lot. Our house was broken into, our car was stolen, we had to get a watchdog, we would get beat up in the street, I had my bike stolen. There was just a lot of real anarchy on the streets and sidewalks.

Sufjan Stevens

#25. He found it difficult to discuss any of his activities, which seemed to him no more than the hole through which he was falling.

Peter Ackroyd

#26. In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.

Jack Kerouac

#27. I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.

George Pattison

#28. Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#29. All good novelists have bad memories.

Graham Greene

#30. The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.

Alice Hoffman

#31. He who remains unmarried impairs the divine image.

Rabbi Akiva

#32. Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself ...

Teresa Of Avila

#33. The world is a great book ... they who never stir from home read only a page.

Augustine Of Hippo

#34. Art is significant deformity.

Roger Fry

#35. The widespread assumption that ethical behavior takes the fun out of life is false. In actuality, living ethically ensures that relationships in our lives, including encounters with strangers, nurture our spiritual growth.

Bell Hooks

#36. Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

Alan Furst