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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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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive…
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One form of loneliness is to have a memory and no one to share it with.
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To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than…
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Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.
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He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will…
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