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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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It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two…
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The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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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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We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any…
— Medard Boss
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The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
— Unknown Author
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously…
— Asa Gray
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If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things.
— Tamara Mellon
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What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing…
— Haruki Murakami
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To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture,…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.
— Alan Greenspan
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