Definition of Inward

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Inward

Being or placed within; inner; interior; -- opposed to outward.

Seated in the mind, heart, spirit, or soul.

Intimate; domestic; private.

That which is inward or within; especially, in the plural, the inner parts or organs of the body; the viscera.

The mental faculties; -- usually pl.

An intimate or familiar friend or acquaintance.

Alt. of Inwards

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Inward Quotations

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
Friedrich Nietzsche

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.
Meister Eckhart

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.
Soren Kierkegaard

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James

Inward Translations

inward in Latin is penitus

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