Quotes About East-West

The East-West Center directly supports the U.S. rebalance to the Asia Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue with countries in the region.

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.

There is huge merit in both Eastern and Western medicine, and I've taken a little bit from both.

We're building the infrastructure we need, whether it be the Melbourne Rail Link, the airport rail link which Melburnians have so wanted for over 40 years, upgrading the Pakenham-Cranbourne railway line, or building the East-West Link.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

Their common interest in Western mystics like Meister Eckhart led both Nishida and Suzuki to misrepresent Christianity as some kind of inferior version of Mahayäna Buddhism, thus reversing the old schemas applied to the East by Westerners.

Spesso sorvolo in sogno il mio lontano paese ntale, Fengyangshu. Mi vedo avvicinarmi ogni giorno di più a un fiume dalle acque torbide, che scorre da est a ovest. Lo attraverso dirigendomi verso la riva sinistra, dove i campi di papavero creano una possente onda rossa che si gonfia con il vento, e mi afferra, mi solleva, e mi sospinge verso quella Fengyangshu dove sono nato.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

Parvati's oriental ability to see that everything was, from a certain point of view, everything else, baffled and charmed his Aristotelian western mind.

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

photographed dressed as an Arab sheikh, in robe and headdress. The photograph is preserved among his papers, pasted next to another picture in which he is in the same pose but dressed in a tailored suit and expensive tie. One is labeled "East" and the other "West.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.