Western Man Quotes
17 quotes by 17 authors
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Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
— John Oliver Killens
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If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western…
— Muhammad Asad
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If I see one dilemma with Western man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light,…
— Ram Dass
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The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.
— Robinson Jeffers
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The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.
— Phil Ochs
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The ego exists as a powerful force in Western man that cannot be dismissed or denied. The therapeutic goal is to integrate the ego with…
— Alexander Lowen
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The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the predatory…
— George Steiner
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By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,…
— Fatema Mernissi
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during…
— Christopher Dawson
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It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just…
— John le Carre
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I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The…
— Stephen Colbert
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Whatever his inhibitions and tastes, Western man believes in the natural holiness of seminudism and raw vegetable juice, because these have become for him symbols…
— Rene Dubos
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What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his…
— Arthur Erickson
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Western man is schizophrenic.
— J. B. Priestley
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The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the…
— William S. Burroughs
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Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made…
— Lester B. Pearson
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
— Kenneth Clark
Who Wrote These Western Man Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 17 Western Man Quotes as follows: