Internal

Internal may refer to:

  • Internality as a concept in behavioural economics
  • Neijia, internal styles of Chinese martial arts
  • Neigong or "internal skills", a type of exercise in meditation associated with Daoism

Famous quotes containing the word internal:

    We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
    Max Lerner (b. 1902)

    The internal effects of a mutable policy ... poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)