Famous quotes containing the words external and/or affairs:
“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)