Discovery Quote by Edith Hamilton

The origins of the modern West are often seen in the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, but the roots of the Enlightenment…

— Ibn Warraq

The legacy of Greece to Western philosophy is Western philosophy.

— Bertrand Russell

Someone might say about a person, "Oh, they are a 'Westerner." But who are Westerners? Greek, Bulgarian, German, English, Scandinavian, Spanish, American, Latin. All…

— Burhan Sonmez

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the…

— Brendan Myers

In the West, the spirit is separate from the body. In the East these are things that are very real and concrete.

— Li Hongzhi

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

— Herman Melville

“Although European thinkers see the Greeks as their intellectual forebears, the Greeks themselves looked toward the East for the sources of true wisdom-to Egypt,…

— Gananath Obeyesekere

I was raised on Westerns. They were part of what going into the movies was.

— Tobin Bell

What Westerns did was to take a world and mythologise it.

— Steven Knight

There is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.

— Henry David Thoreau

We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of…

— Thomas Bulfinch

The truth is that there wasn't much competition. There was the East and the West, but there was really no West before us. We…

— DJ Yella