"We of the Occident are about to arrive at a crossroads that was reached by the thinkers of India some seven hundred years before Christ. This is the real reason, why we become both vexed and stimulated, uneasy and yet interested, when confronted with the concepts and images of Oriental wisdom."
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Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.
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Heinrich Zimmer
Heinrich Zimmer (6 December 1890 – 20 March 1943) was an Indologist and historian of South Asian art.
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