Quotes of: Western-society Keyword

It doesn't matter whether a sequence of words is called a history or a story: that is, whether it is intended to follow a sequence of actual events or not. As far as its verbal shape is concerned, it will be equally mythical in either case. But we no...

Biblical and Classical Myths: The Mythological Framework of Western Culture

The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue,...

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Jeigu būtų kur nors pasaulyje tokia vieta, kur tikrai vieną valandą per visus metus būtų galima gauti ką nors valgomo, jis kaip tik šią valandą, tarsi kokio įkvėpimo genamas, užsidėtų kepurę, išeitų, nueitų tiesiai lyg pagal kompas...

All Quiet on the Western Front

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors — Saint Thomas rejected Saint Anselm's proofs,...

A History of Western Philosophy

William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before t...

A History of Western Philosophy

The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old carny hands—it was a composite of all the sprawl...

Nightmare Alley

The embodiment of mind leads us to a philosophy of embodied realism. Our concepts cannot be a direct reflection of external, objective, mind-independent reality because our sensorimotor system plays a crucial role in shaping them. On the other hand, ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

...[T]he whole undertaking of philosophical inquiry requires a prior understanding of the conceptual system in which the undertaking is set. That is an empirical job for cognitive science and cognitive semantics. ... Unless this job is done, we will ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the strength of passion, either love or hate, were but pleasant tales for long winter’s nights. Bound souls, two sides of the same counter, together th...

The Western King

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

Keith Carradine

Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

Evgeny Morozov

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

George Ayittey

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

The Society of the Spectacle

Partout où il y a représentation indépendante, le spectacle se reconstitue.

The Society of the Spectacle

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Felix Frankfurter

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

Eric Sevareid

Good sex is the basis of any truly civilized society.

Gil A. Waters

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

Emile Durkheim

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.

Dan Aykroyd