btfo

[Anonymous No.17116668]

>M. Schubert, a very gifted astronomer from the Academy of sciences, Chief librarian, was telling me some day, very soundly, while showing me [Oriental codices] : "How crazy are we to go collect those rags ! The most minor of our European books is of more worth." How right was he. In the very moment I am writing to you, a Moslem Hindu has translated the Principles of Newton in Arabic under the direction of an English mathematician. If Hindus ever get to fully understand this book, they will swoon of laughter if Europeans come to them for counselling.
Joseph de Maistre, October 20, 1807, Letter to the Count of Vargas.

How will orientalists and indomaniacs recover ?

[Anonymous No.17116862]

>>17116668
>From every sentence deep original and sublime thoughts arise, and a high and holy and earnest spirit pervades the whole. In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads… They are destined sooner or later to become the faith of the people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

>The Gita, the most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue—perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.
Wilhelm von Humboldt

>The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever revealed; hence its enduring value is subject not only to India but to all of humanity.
Aldous Huxley

>The Bhagavad Gita... is the most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue.
Robert Oppenheimer

>In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagvat-Geeta, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial; and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions.
Henry David Thoreau

>There is no kind of framework within which we can find consciousness in the plural; this is simply something we construct because of the temporal plurality of individuals, but it is a false construction....The only solution to this conflict insofar as any is available to us at all lies in the ancient wisdom of the Upanishad.
Erwin Schrödinger

[Anonymous No.17116900]

>>17116668
trips witnessed...

[Anonymous No.17116910]

>>17116668
>>17116862
>"Even the loftiest philosophy of the Europeans, the idealism of reason, as it is set forth by Greek philosophers, appears in comparison with the abundant light and vigor of Oriental idealism, like a feeble Promethean spark in the full flood of heavenly glory of the noonday sun—faltering and feeble, and ever ready to be extinguished."
- Friedrich von Schlegel (1772 – 1829)

>"When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East, above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe, we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which the European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy."
- Victor Cousin (1792 – 1867)

>"It is impossible to read the Vedanta, or the many fine compositions in illustration of it, without believing that Pythagoras and Plato derived their sublime theories from the same fountain with the sages of India."
- Sir William Jones ( 1746 – 1794)

>"Vedanta is the most sublime of all philosophies, and the most comforting of all religions. If philosophy is meant to be a preparation for a happy death, or Euthanasia, I know of no better preparation for it than the Vedanta philosophy."
>"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."
- Max Muller (1823 – 1900)

[Anonymous No.17116924]

>>17116668
Is there anyone De Maistre did not BTFO and obliterate?

[Anonymous No.17116947]

>>17116668
>If Hindus ever get to fully understand this book, they will swoon of laughter if Europeans come to them for counselling.
The fuck is he trying to say

[Anonymous No.17116952]

>>17116862
>>17116910
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl0b2LGf9jM

Pajeetsama...
.... I kneel

[Anonymous No.17116974]

>>17116947
That if Hindus read Newton they'll recognize the superiority of Europe over them and that Euro orientalists will be seen as dumbasses.

>>17116862
>>17116910
and ?

[Anonymous No.17116978]

>The traditional sciences … constitute … a preparation for a higher knowledge and a way of approach to it, and by virtue of their hierarchical arrangement according to the levels of existence to which they refer, they form, as it were, so many rungs by which it is possible to climb to the level of pure intellectuality. It is only too clear that modern sciences cannot in any way serve either of these purposes; this is why they can be no more than “profane science,” whereas the traditional sciences … are effectively incorporated in “sacred science.”

[Anonymous No.17116991]

>>17116974
What does Newton have to do with anything?

[Anonymous No.17117035]

>>17116991
De Maistre is having a fedora moment where he tries to one-up doctrines far beyond his comprehension with babbie's first sciecne book, which in his time was Newton's Optics.

[Anonymous No.17117078]

>>17116668
Proven right

[Anonymous No.17117095]

>>17117078
based pajeets

[Anonymous No.17117135]

>>17116668
That's a pretty embarrassing thing to say, but I guess even the greatest minds aren't immune to bias.

[Anonymous No.17117145]

>>17116668
Jokes on him because this same le advance science BTFO'd the core values of Europeans. And made bugmen who today, will happily piss on the grave of de Maistre.

[Anonymous No.17117236]

>>17117145
Pretty much

[Anonymous No.17117556]

>>17117236
>>17117145
>>17117135
cope