“Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of these external and internal issues with my chess life. Tai chi is the martial embodiment of Taoist philosophy. Initially, I had no intention of competing in the martial arts; it was just the meditation.” ArtPhilosophyHelpingDealsIssuesMeditationBalanceIntentionChessInternalsMartial ArtsCompetingTaoEmbodimentTao Te ChingTai Chi Author:Joshua Waitzkin
“In my mind, martial arts movies are martial arts movies and action is action. It's quite different, because martial arts doesn't just have physical form; you have a philosophy, internal and external. A lot of it involves your life. How you see the world. An action film I think is just about the movement. I think it's different.” ThinkingWorldMindArtDifferentPhilosophyActionFilmFormMovementInternalsMartial ArtsAction Films Author:Jet Li
“Martial arts have two parts. One is external, other internal. The external is physical part. The internal is philosophy of how to be, what kind of person learns martial arts.” KindPersonsArtTwoPhilosophyInternalsMartial Arts Author:Jet Li
“Socrates condemned art because he preferred philosophy and only after much internal struggle did Plato accept this judgment.” ArtPhilosophyAcceptingStruggleJudgmentArt IsInternalsPlatoInternal Struggle Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Civil Engineering is the art of directing the great sources of Power in Nature for the use and convenience of man; being that practical application of the most important principles of natural Philosophy which has in a considerable degree realized the anticipations of Bacon, and changed the aspect and state of affairs in the whole world. The most important object of Civil Engineering is to improve the means of production and of traffic in states, both for external and internal Trade.” MenWorldMeanArtImportantStatesPhilosophyWholeUseNaturalPrinciplesObjectsChangedSourceDegreesAspectTradeAffairProductionsPracticalsWhole WorldInternalsApplicationEngineeringAnticipationTrafficConvenienceCivil EngineerCivil EngineeringNatural Philosophy Author:Thomas Tredgold
“I feel that the internal worlds of women are not that well represented by society. It is not an immediate thing people think about - the imagination of women or women's philosophy.” PeopleThinkingWorldFeelsWellsPhilosophyImaginationInternals Author:Planningtorock