Body Quote by Alexander Herzen

Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body will pass…

— Alexander Herzen

I have seen productions of Julius Caesar that set it in a modern, Western context and it just looks as though they're getting rid…

— Gregory Doran

Someone once said that Sci Fi was the modern Western. What's my favorite? Well, anything that needs a misfit. I don't have a real…

— William Sanderson

The world dominion of western thought, forms of organisation, technology and military force is not God-given, nor eternal, nor greatly appreciated by the rest…

— James Buchan

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a…

— Albert Schweitzer

Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held sacred as…

— Michel Foucault

“It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.”

— Ali Smith

After two terms as California's Governator, Schwarzenegger slipped comfortably back into pictures with 'The Last Stand,' a modern Western, then crammed into the wide…

— Richard Corliss

The influence (for good or ill) of Plato's work is immeasurable. Western thought, one might say, has been Platonic or anti-Platonic, but hardly ever…

— Karl Popper

“Western thought has emphasized individual action, permanent character traits, formal logic, and clearly delineated categories. For an even longer period, Asian thought has emphasized…

— David Brooks

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in…

— Isaiah Berlin