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.
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
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