“Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but all the while there's something calling you back.”
“Why be miserable? After all, I am playing philosophy”
“Revolution and religion blend very well”
“Homelands are as sacred as God, and the will of the people is also sacred”
“I wish humans could live twice: once to write scholarly works, the second to dedicate to the public”
“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must be a subject for deep investigation. Occidentalism is the other side of Orientalism”