#wes

The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself. ↗

— Andre Bazin

#cinema #genre #identical #itself #only

Islamic science is related profoundly to the Islamic world view. It is rooted deeply in knowledge based upon the unity of Allah or al-tawhid and a view of the universe in which Allah’s Wisdom and Will rule and in which all things are interrelated reflecting unity on the cosmic level. In contrast, Western science is based on considering the natural world as a reality which is separate from both Allah and the higher levels of being. At best, Allah is accepted as the creator of the world, as a mason who has built a house which now stand on its own. His intrusion into the running of the world and His continuous sustenance of it are not accepted in the modern scientific world view. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#modern-scientific-world-view #western-science #nature

How stupid, I thought dreamily, to have ever thought I could give this up. Not just the kissing, although, as Archer’s hands cupped my face, I had to admit that part was pretty awesome. But all of it: joking with him and working beside him. Being with a guy who was my friend and could stil make me feel like this. ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#lovers #awesome

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#awesome

Jackass!" Eve yelled. "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome," Shane said. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#awesome

Raziel’s sixty feet tall?” “Actually, he’s only fifty-nine feet tall, but he likes to exaggerate,” said Magnus. Isabelle clicked her tongue in annoyance. “Valentine raised an angel in his cellar. I don’t see why you need all this space—” “Because Valentine is just WAY MORE AWESOME than me, ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #tmi #awesome

I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. ↗

— Marlon Brando

#classic #godfather #awesome

Baseball is only dull to dull minds ↗

— Red Barber

#awesome

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#middle-east #orientalism #west #islam

Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden, but what is not fashionable will hardly ever find its way into periodicals or books or be heard in colleges. Legally your researchers are free, but they are conditioned by the fashion of the day. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#the-west #thinking #censorship