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Quotes from Philosophies of India — Heinrich Zimmer

1890–1943 Germany

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When I was a student, the term "Indian philosophy: was usually regarded as self-contradictory, a contradictio in adjecto, comparable to such an absurdity as "wooden steel." "Indian philosophy" was something that simply did not exist.

Philosophies of India (1951)

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