Alan Watts
Author: Alan Watts
Publisher: Vintage (1973)

Cultural renewal comes about when highly differentiated cultures mix.  It is as when, by triangulation, a distant point is ascertained by sighting it from two different points.  Our grasp on reality is better when we look at it from the standpoints of different cultures, and the comparison brings to light aspects of one's own point of view so basic as to have been ignored.