Alan Hovhannes, an American composer
Quotes about Orient: Alan Hovhannes on Music
Alan Hovhannes, an American composer
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Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
Edward Said, a Palestinian American literary theorist
Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
J. B. Priestley, an English novelist, playwright, and broadcaster.
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, / And the epitaph drear: `A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East’.
Rudyard Kipling, a British poet and writer, a 1907 Nobel Prize laureate
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, an Indian leader
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.
Octavio Paz, a Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, a 1990 Nobel Prize laureate
I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.
Jawaharlal Nehru, an Indian Prime-Minister
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one’s own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.
Buddha
Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.
Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
Ramakrishna