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“We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.”

Philosophy Earth Moving Common Planets Tools West Strive East Shelter Planet Earth East And West

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“Demographics need not be destiny. The waning West became what it is not by out-breeding the undeveloped world. We were once great not because of huge numbers, but due to human capital - people of superior ideas and abilities, capable of innovation, exploration, science, philosophy.”

People World Needs Humans Ideas Philosophy Ability Numbers Destiny Huge Capable Innovation West Dues Superiors Exploration Breeding Demographics Huge Numbers

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Tantra is not sexual yoga. When the word tantra is used in the West, very often people immediately associate it with some kind of sexual yoga in which you use sex as a vehicle for enlightenment.”

People Kind Philosophy Use Used Sex Enlightenment Yoga West Vehicle Associates Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the fall of the empire, Art, Philosophy and decent drains all vanished from the West.”

Art Philosophy Fall History Humour West Decent Empires Drains

Book:The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

Source: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization

“I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.”

Want Long Philosophy Tradition West South East Humanist Grounded North And South

Author:Cornel West

“What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?”

Source: The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes

“The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.”

World Love Humans Heart Important Philosophy Religion Humanity Principles Mankind Divine Unity West East Oneness Ties Human Heart Heart Love East And West Ties Of Love

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“In the west we think of yoga as an exercise programme, when actually where it's from in India it's a whole philosophy. The Asanas and the exercise programme are one tiny aspect of it, and so it really, really fascinates me.”

Thinking Philosophy Whole Exercise Yoga Aspect India West Tiny Programmes Asana

Author:Jayne Middlemiss

“The thought of both East and West (philosophies) can indeed be integrated into a higher truth. They show us that the West is correct in maintaining that life is about progress about evolving toward something higher. Yet the East is also correct in emphasizing that we must let go of control with the ego. We can't progress by using logic alone. We have to attain a fuller consciousness, an inner connection with God, because only then can our evolution toward something better be guided by a higher part of ourselves.”

“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 know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.”

“Before the scientific rationalism took hold of our minds and before we became succumbed to a materialistic worldview, the Western philosophy was holistic and relational, and even now there are many scientists in the West seeing things totally interconnected.”

Mind Philosophy Seeing Scientist West Western Worldview Materialistic Holistic Interconnected Rationalism Western Philosophy

Author:Satish Kumar