Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass into the composition of grass, of sheep, of cutlets, and of men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.
The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go.
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.
With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
How we think about the future and the past determines everything about how we think about our situation as human beings.
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