Quotes Tagged With :oriental

Knowledge means rising above immediacy, beyond self, into the foreign and distant. The object of such....

The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by....

... the very appearance of the word ‘‘oriental’’ as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers....

At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted.I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and....

you're the fly on the wall hearing all, seeing allears of a wall hearing all the secretsperhaps you're....

In the West, people learn through the Socratic tradition. The education system was influenced by Western....

human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but....

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is....

I got a call froma cynical young American journalist...You know the sort. He's lived in the Middle East....

Ed Lim’s daughter, Monique, was a junior now, but as she’d grown up, he and his wife had noted with....