Oriental Orientation

Famous quotes containing the words oriental and/or orientation:

“The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wild strong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.”
—Hans Magnus Enzensberger (b. 1929)