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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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Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what…
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of…
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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the…
— Walter Bagehot
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would…
— Unknown Author
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Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also…
— Ramana Maharshi
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A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
— Arnold Bennett
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No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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