16 Oriental Quotes for You to Enjoy

I love how British people call Asian people 'oriental' unless they're talking about Indian people, who get to be called Asian. Mary H.K. Choi

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The Oriental thinks everything in the sense-perceptible world is 'maya'; everything perceived by our senses and all thinking connected with sense perceptions is 'maya,' the great illusion. The only reality is the reality of the soul. What a human being achieves in his or her soul is reality. Rudolf Steiner

Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings. Rudolf Steiner

Reality People Ideology Distinct Those Kinds Eat Souls Western America Form Viewpoints Orient Europe Oriental Beings Two

Japan today has become acquainted with the Western civilization of the rule of Might, but retains the characteristics of the Oriental civilization of the rule of Right. Now the question remains whether Japan will be the hawk of the Western civilization of the rule of Might, or the tower of strength of the Orient. Sun Yat-sen

The right of property holds good in all society; but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him. George A. Moore

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I come from two parts of the oriental community - Jerusalemite and North African Jews. A. B. Yehoshua

Community Jews Come Parts North African Oriental Two

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish. Olivia De Havilland

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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable. Malcolm de Chazal

Flower Sun Most Jumble Oriental Thighs Thing Imaginable Harem

The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision. Li Keqiang

Today Needs World Vision Thinking Both Western Oriental

Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt. Isaac D'Israeli

History Age Remained Disasters Princes Until Exempt Were Chief Where Which Century Oriental Captivity Residence Fatal

I love Puccini and that oriental influence in his music. Johnny Mathis

Love Music His Influence Oriental

When it was announced I had won the Tony Award, I was in Bangkok doing a movie with Judi Dench. I remember coming back from the location to the Oriental Hotel and hearing someone yelling across the reception area, 'You've won the Tony!' It was wonderful and strange to be halfway around the world. Roger Rees

You Strange Wonderful World Remember Back Location Someone Area Had Hotel Announced Halfway Around Judi Dench Coming Doing Dench Hearing Yelling Won Bangkok Movie Across Oriental Award Reception Tony

My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets. Mark Shand

Love You Spend Bit Markets Collecting Objects Weekends Driving Like Around Antiques Often Move Flat Really Oriental Filled Travels

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again. Wil S. Hylton

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