"And I realize how useless wails are and……" — Mircea Eliade
"And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is."
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22 Quotes by Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade has 22 quotes on this site.
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Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ...…
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It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to…
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The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because…
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The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the…
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The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to…
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Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of…
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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…
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not…
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For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other…
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The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of…
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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the…
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The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are…
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More Gratuitous Quotes
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My moral compass swings far to the left, but when it comes to gratuitous violence, I have trouble.
— Michael Biehn
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Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . .…
— David Hasselhoff
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A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow…
— David Steindl-Rast
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When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then.…
— Tom Robbins
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece…
— Marquis de Sade
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
— William James
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Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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I never want to do nudity that’s gratuitous. Girls look so much better in lingerie or a t-shirt and leave…
— Ashley Benson
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Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault…
— William A. Dembski
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In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous over eating…
— Lloyd Kaufman
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