Quotes Tagged With :oriental

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

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

Certainly If John moschos where to come back today it is likely that he would find much more than that....

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of....

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

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

I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like....

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

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

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