Orientalist

"The most important shift, especially in South Asia, has been the rise to prominence of scholarship that returns not to Hegel but to Marx."

🇷🇺Andrei Lankov

Entertainment

b. 1963

"Right now, no sane and unbiased person would be so stupid as to doubt that the North Korean state is very repressive."

🇭🇺Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner

Art

1840–1899

"M. Ikram Chaghatai: Writings of Dr. Leitner, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 2002"

Edwin Arnold

Literature

1832–1904

"The Buddhas who have been and who shall be, of these am I and what they did, I do."

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it."

🇮🇪George Moore (novelist)

Literature

1852–1933

"The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece."

🇬🇧Bernard Lewis

Politics

1916–2018

"The surest test of one's understanding of a text in another language is translating it into one's own."

🇬🇧William Jones (philologist)

Mathematics

1746–1794

"Plato drew many of his notions from the sages of Hindustán."