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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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In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I…
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that,…
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most…
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which…
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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to…
— Judy Chicago
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We all know Reagan's legacy, from the Iran-Contra affair to the funding of the Nicaraguan military in which over 200,000 people died.…
— Danny Glover
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