Activity Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must be a…

— Hasan Hanafi

Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is,…

— William Barrett

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the…

— Ambrose Bierce

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is…

— Edward Said

What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not…

— Conrad Hyers

He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his…

— Daniel De Leon

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.

— Li Keqiang

“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the Oriental; fragments,…

— Edward W. Said

In the Far East, we look at life in terms of circles. In the West, they look at life more in terms of squares…

— Frederick Lenz

The Oriental philosophy approaches easily loftier themes than the modern aspires to; and no wonder if it sometimes prattle about them. It only assigns…

— Henry David Thoreau

Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

— Rudyard Kipling