Carl Gustav Jung. (№ 381490)

When the Eastern mind observes the holistic totality of the facts he perceives it as such, but the Western mind divides it into something less on a separate entity. <...> Here's how it looks: you're standing on the sea and the wave throws away an old hat, a broken drawer, shoes, dead fish, and they lie on the shore. You say: "the Case, doesn't make sense!" And the Chinese mind asks: "What mean these things are together?" The Chinese mind experiments with that being together, "to come together and at the same time"; he has his own, unknown in the West, but which plays a significant role in Eastern philosophy, experimental method. This method of anticipation of the possibilities, which the Japanese government uses to this day when addressing political issues...