"I don't want to be mediocre, this is……" — Mircea Eliade

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my… - Mircea Eliade

"I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body."

— Mircea Eliade

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22 Quotes by Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ...…
It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to…
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because…
The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the…
The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to…
Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of…
To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had…
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not…
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other…
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of…
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the…
The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree; they are worshipped precisely because they are…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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