# The Necessity of Virtue

Fulton Sheen commented thusly:

> The Western mind knows the world better than it knows man, but the [Far] Eastern world knows man better than it knows the world. Our Western world can tame nature, the Eastern world learned to tame itself. The former is an extrovert and produces a technological civilization; the latter is an introvert and seeks to develop wisdom through contemplation. The Western world regards the head the localization of wisdom, but the Eastern world often makes it the navel.

- Marc Barnes: Systems must require virtue