Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist
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Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
Ramakrishna
The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.
Billy Graham, an American evangelist
In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.
Buddha
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn’t an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
Andrzej Wajda, a Polish film director
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
E. M. Forster, an English author
Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, a 1950 Nobel Prize laureate.
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
Christian Lacroix, a French fashion designer.
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne, an English author
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
Samuel Johnson, an English author