Character trait Quote by David Brooks

“Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment to the…

— Polly Young-Eisendrath

“In East Asia generally, the notion of a Supreme Being, so essential to Western religions, is replaced by that of a Supreme State of…

— John Blofeld

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

— Li Keqiang

“This is the inevitable disadvantage of studying Asian philosophy by the purely literary methods of Western scholarship, for words can be communicative only between…

— Alan Wilson Watts

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is,…

— William Barrett

“[There is a] gulf that can exist between different emotional and perceptual worlds—all 'Chinese'—in recent times [post-Deng Xiaoping].”

— Mark Elvin

'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of…

— Okky Madasari

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.

— Walter Lippmann

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is…

— Edward Said

“Besides robbing us of health and vitality, emotions constitute the greatest obstacle to spiritual cultivation by diverting energy and attention from internal development to…

— Daniel P. Reid

There are aspects of Asian culture in my work, but it's really rooted in an American experience - transcendentalism, '60s counterculture, punk rock.

— Fred Tomaselli

Even though China was a very closed country, they thought of themselves as the center of the world. It is an ethnic characteristic. After…

— Cai Guo-Qiang