Animal Quote by Frans de Waal

“Animals are pure and gentle. They’re sweet and never want more than you can give. “People,”

— Amanda M. Lee

Animals can seem more pure. Without complication, I mean, animals are selfless. What animals do for us, they do out of instinct.

— Susan Orlean

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

The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we…

— H. L. Mencken

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

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

— Alexander Herzen

“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

I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to…

— Leonid Feodorov

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

— Rebecca West

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