Occidental Quotes

#1. In Nietzsche's view nihilism is not a Weltanschauung that occurs at some time and place or another; it is rather the basic character of what happens in Occidental history.

Martin Heidegger

#2. No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Edward Sapir

#3. Sadism ... is a massive cultural fact that appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century and that constitutes one of the greatest conversions of the occidental imagination ... madness of desire, the insane delight of love and death in the limitless presumption of appetite.

Michel Foucault

#4. attending USC or Occidental.

Lisa See

#5. A sort of halo, an occidental glow, came over life then. Troubles and other realities took on themselves a metaphysical impalpability, sinking to mere mental phenomena for serene contemplation, and no longer stood as pressing concretions which chafed body and soul.

Thomas Hardy

#6. Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Oriental marionette imitating an occidental gesture.

Joe Haldeman

#8. But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours
that's another matter.

H.G.Wells

#9. In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.

Stephen Beal

#10. Minor-are the only ones which Occidental music employs,

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.

Orhan Pamuk

#12. for it is this modern Occidental civilization which, since about the middle of the thirteenth century, has been - quite literally - the only innovating civilization in the world.

Joseph Campbell

#13. People can enjoy music everywhere. Therefore, music is more than a gift
because it represents a unique form of human freedom.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

Orison Swett Marden

#15. Not only believe in yourself but trust in yourself. Confidence will bloom.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

Anthony Liccione

#17. Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us what our present trajectory is.

Douglas Adams

#18. The marketing people are always talking about something called 'consumers'. I have this image of a fat little man in baggy Bermuda shorts, a Hawaiian shirt, and a straw hat with beer-can openers dangling from it, clutching fistfuls of dollars.

Robert James Waller

#19. Think about what you have to share that could be of some value to people. Share a handy tip you've discovered while working. Or a link to an interesting article. Mentition a good book you're reading.

Austin Kleon

#20. No real man would take something as sweet as his penis and turn it into a club.

Mary Mackey

#21. When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#22. As a society, we've evolved, and we've recognized that the American family structure has undergone enormous changes. Divorce is all around us, and who among us doesn't know someone who is divorced or has been impacted by divorce. It's not as scandalous as it was.

Laura Wasser

#23. (remember, I was pregnant once, and I'm on TV: Those two things combined make me an expert)

Tina Fey

#24. The one thing he didn't do was discover the comet that bears his name.

Bill Bryson

#25. Make sense who may. I switch off.

Samuel Beckett

#26. I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.

Carrie Preston