“Can one be both barbarian of the soul and sophisticated of the mind?”
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted”
“..One has to be a mindless barbarian to burn such beauty in a stove, to destroy what we can not create..”
“When Angkorian society began, Paris and London were not much more than elaborate villages. Europe was crawling with barbarians, and here were the Khmer engineering sophisticated irrigation systems and constructing the biggest temple in the world.”
“A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist”
“It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.”