Psychology Quote by Henry James

“I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the…

— Sándor Márai

“Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out…

— Tahir Shah

“...the art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..”

— John Geddes

“[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and…

— Roman Payne

“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

— Salman Rushdie

“After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted…

— Mark Steyn

“I’m a European, Peter. If I had a mission – if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the enemy, it…

— John le Carré

“subject would largely have to have been a retraction. Because all the while, I was looking for lies to expose. No bit of information…

— Mary Mycio

“Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The continent did not appeal: France was filled with irritating people; Spain was corrupt and unstable; Russia, impossible; Italy, absurd; Germany, rigid; Portugal, in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find the will…

— Silvia Federici

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the…

— Charles River Editors