"Hereafter, we will have to reckon again and again with Japan, indeed, with the Orient as a whole. Orientalistik will become a practical field of study, no longer what it was previously, a scrupulously avoided domain of dry as dust pedants. A chair for Japanology will soon be created [actually, the first came in 1914]. But chairs are not the only thing — and they are not the most important thing in the world. In hundreds and thousands of canals the life blood of the peoples is flowing back and forth. From now on will it circulate in a totally different, powerful way, between the Orient and Occident ... and not only will the Occident act on the Orient, but the Orient will also act on the Occident."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Suzanne L. Marchand - German Orientalism in the Age of Empire. Religion, Race, and Scholarship-Cambridge University Press (2009)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Schroeder
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Leopold von Schroeder
Leopold von Schroeder (December 24, 1851, Tartu – February 8, 1920, Vienna) was a German Indologist.
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Leopold von Schroeder →
Related Quotes
"The Indians are the nation of romanticists of antiquity. The Germans are the romantics of modem times. SentImentality…"
"Nearly all the philosophical and mathematical doctrines attributed to Pythagoras are derived from India."
"If we consider the results obtained together, we will not be able to doubt the conclusion to be drawn from them. The …"
"Schroeder wrote in 1887, responding to the conventional philhellenist insistence that the Greeks were able to form ev…"
"Leopold von Schroeder's interest in the problem of the Aryan came from completely different sources than that of Hein…"
"Sunt Angli graves ut Germani, magnifici domi forisque magna assectantium famulorum agnimi secum trahunt, quibus in si…"
"Sunt potentes in praeliis, undiquaque debellant adversarios, nullumque penitus patiuntur iugum servitutis. Delectantu…"
"The strongest argument for the truth of Christianity is the true Christian, the man filled with the Spirit of Christ.…"
"What Christianity in her antagonism with every form of unbelief most needs is holy living."
"The Negro problem is a white man's problem."