143 Quotes About West

What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.

It would be most tragic if the people who discovered the theory of evolution were to perish due to a failure of will to apply it to their own destiny.

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.

There is a whole swathe of nervous German professors who fear something like a Buddhist inundation and a decline of the intellectual West. Rest assured, the West will not collapse and Europe will never become a Buddhist empire. Anyone who reads the Buddha's speeches and converts to Buddhism as a result may well have thereby found some kind of solace for himself - yet in place of the path that the Buddha might show us, all that person has opted for is an emergency exit.

This is imperative for the East as well as the West. “Come now, let us reason together” (Isaiah 1:18).

The west coast is a mecca for wild hearts, wild minds, wild spirits and I’m a WMD—I’ve got so much energy I’m about to explode.

OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

we were nothing more than actions to reactions - helpless against our own fate. It's true. I react and others pay.

Some societies, and some people here, too, have decided that if women copy the West and start wearing skirts and jeans, they will find freedom, or if they are allowed to go out of their homes to work they will find freedom, but a woman in jeans can be beaten as much as a woman in a burqa.