Advantage Quote by David E. Cooper

“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

“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

Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I like they way Asians project…

— Paz Vega

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

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

— Kevin Kwan

“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

I've lived so many different Asian cultures.

— Henry Golding

Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

— Jack Kornfield

When you look at the Asians, the Asian is very gifted in creation, creativity and inventions. If you go to Japan or any Asian…

— Reggie White

'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

What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not…

— Conrad Hyers