Oriental Orientation

Famous quotes containing the words oriental and/or orientation:

    “Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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