Action Quote by Henry David Thoreau

'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

Western philosophers gained access to Asian and African traditions initially by noting similarities and differences. But that, as A.C. Mukerji, of Allahabad, was to…

— Jay L. Garfield

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

— Li Keqiang

“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

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

“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must be a…

— Hasan Hanafi

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views…

— Edward Said

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led…

— Liu Xiaobo

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

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

“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

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the…

— Frederick Lenz