External Solutions Quotes

The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse. By itself, the law can never create anything better... Establishing respect for the law does not automatically ensure a better life for that, after all, is a job for people and not for laws and institutions.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

More and more we try to effect an adaptation to life by means of external gadgets, and attempt to solve our problems by conscious thinking rather than unconscious 'know-how'. This is much less to our advantage than we like to suppose.

There is no external means, whether it's my career, or money or house or a wife or anything, that is going to set me right.

Other people are not medicine.

During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it.

Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.

Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.

Anyway, I believe you don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.