We Europeans are
very influenced by the philosophy "I think, so I am".
From what I
have seen in Africa—poverty,
AIDS, malaria, overpopulation, the oppression of flora en fauna—, my
life is now
much more shaped by what happens around me. So no more "I think, so I am", but rather "I am, because you are". ~ Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, Dutch businessman and philantropist (1941-2006), in Elsevier