Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the duality of human existence between internal spirituality and external practicalities.
In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. emphasizes the importance of recognizing both the internal realm, which encompasses our spiritual and moral values expressed through culture and religion, and the external realm, which consists of the tools and systems that help us navigate our physical lives. He suggests that a balanced understanding of these two dimensions is essential for meaningful living.
In practice
During a philosophy lecture on the nature of human existence.
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.
Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself.
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.
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