East And West Quotes

• In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create disticntions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true.

  Gautama Buddha

  Believe, Buddhism, Sky

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• Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Misunderstood, East, Orientalism

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• The West can teach the East how to get a living, but the East must eventually be asked to show the West how to live.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  East, West, Teach

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• The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

  Martin Buber

  Education, Real, Struggle

  "Encounter with Martin Buber". Book by Aubrey Hodes, 1972.

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• Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Art

  "Fictional character: Captain Jeffrey Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", www.imdb.com. 1930.

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• He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Death, Song

  "Funeral Blues" l. 9 (1936)

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• 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.

  James Redfield

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Ego

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• There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

  Sean Taylor

  East, Stories, Four

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• East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

  O. Henry

  Race, San Francisco, People

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.1661, ShandonPress

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• It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Ignorance

  A World Split Apart, delivered 8 June 1978, Harvard University

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• 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.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Love, Philosophy, Heart

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• It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.

  Gautama Buddha

  Thinking, Mind, East

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• Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

  Celia Thaxter

  Morning, Sky, East

  Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

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• The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Children, Important, Doe

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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Responsibility, Liberty, West

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Children, Destiny, Insults You

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• It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.

  Jean Cocteau

  Should Have, East, Should

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• I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

  Abdallah II

  East, Culture, West

  "Learning How To Be King". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2000.

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• You can't go east and west at the same time.

  Jean Charest

  Easter, East, West

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• 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!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Strong, Men, Sky

  "The Ballad of East and West" st. 1 (1892)

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• The conflict is not between Christianity and Islam or between East and West - instead, it is between stupid people and other stupid people.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, People, Islam

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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.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Philosophy, Moving, East

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• In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.

  Leslie Charteris

  Country, America, West

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• The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Giving Up, Men, White

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• Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

  Octavio Paz

  Confused, Yesterday, Space

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.21, Arcade Publishing

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