Immanuel Kant, quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins; quoted in Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe, page 186
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The culture of the Indians, as is known, almost certainly came from Tibet, just as all our arts like agriculture, numbers, the game of chess, etc., seem to have come from India.
— Immanuel Kant on Indomania
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The culture of the Indians, as is known, almost certainly came from Tibet, just as all our arts like agriculture, numbers, the game of chess, etc., seem to have come from India." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2018). Still no trace of an Aryan invasion: A collection on Indo-European origins; quoted in Poliakov, L. (1974). The Aryan myth : a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe, page 186" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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