Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit his understanding, not the other way around. I could not make him see reason, could not make him regret his actions. It would be a mistake to try.

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.