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Mircea Eliade has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his…
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that…
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes…
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils…
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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent…
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A…
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To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood…
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because…
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for…
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of…
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are hierophanies, because…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by…
— Dave Barry
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Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood…
— Stokely Carmichael
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not…
— John F. Kennedy
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There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter…
— Democritus
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The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern, we can work in harmony with…
— Unknown Author
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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .…
— Ayn Rand
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Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal;…
— John F. Kennedy
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As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Up to and including the moment of exposure, the photographer is working in an undeniably subjective way. By his choice of technical…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. Â This is the true self. Â Every other identity is illusion. Â God's…
— Brennan Manning
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