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Men Quotes by Mircea Eliade
- Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the…
- The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation…
- In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society…
- Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a…
- Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his…
- The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured,…
- To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in…
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