Quotes About Western

Do Eastern religions meditate because it helps them to perceive reality as they consider it really is; that is, in monistic mode? Or do they see reality in monistic mode because they meditate? Similarly, do western religions emphasize such acts as prayer and worship because they help the believer to see the reality of the theistic mode? Or do they tend to see reality in a theistic way because of the activities of prayer and ritual worship?

adopted by Nietzsche in such works as Thus Spake Zarathustra and by certain modern French philosophers. The popularity of this style during the past century is perhaps owing to the great interest, among Western readers, in the

Indeed the roots of the climate crisis date back to core civilizational myths on which post-Enlightenment Western culture is founded—myths about humanity's duty to dominate a natural world that is believed to be at once limitless and entirely controllable.

So, in a way, Chris Horner was right when he told his fellow Heartlanders that climate change isn't the issue. In fact, it isn't an issue at all. Climate change is a message, one that is telling us that many of Western culture's most cherished ideas are no longer viable.

The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

For women to be urged to think continually of beauty's fragility and transience is a way to try to keep us subservient, by maintaining in us a fatalism that has not been part of Western men's thinking since the Renaissance.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

our elites used the "crisis" to shut down Western norms of liberty, the human-centered world, and civilization itself.

Their goal is to subvert Western cultural norms and ultimately to alienate Western children from their families' influence and from Western history and freedoms generally.

Brilhante discurso - comentou Martín. - Histórico. Cada vez que esse homem fala, a história do pensamento no ocidente realiza uma revolução copernicana.

She looked towards the western sky, which was now aglow like some vast foundry wherein new worlds were cast

The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.

This was possible only because the anti-slavery movement coincided with an era in which Western power and hegemony were at their zenith, so that it was essentially European imperialism which ended slavery. This idea might seem shocking, not because it does not fit the facts, but because it does not fit the prevailing vision of our time.

To the Ibos, Western education was a rare opportunity to be seized.

The Western powers recognized this, and seemed prepared to endorse almost any injustice as long as it held communism at bay.

Attempts to rehabilitate the political right in western Europe have not only resulted in a whitewash: in some cases, absurdly, it has allowed right-wing extremists to portray themselves as the injured party.

The stubborn reluctance of the lower sections of the seventeenth-century population to forgo their charmers and wise men resembles the unwillingness of some primitive peoples today to rely exclusively upon the newly introduced Western medicine.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

The dominant Western worldview is not based on seeing synergies and connections but on making distinctions and seeing differences.

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

Even today Western man finds it hard to see the psychological necessity for a transcendental subject of cognition as the counter-pole of the empirical universe, although the postulate of a world-confronting self, at least as a point of reflection, is a logical necessity.

It is the face of his own evil shadow that grins at Western man from the other side of the Iron curtain.

John B. Stetsons