"It is not without fear and trembling that……" — Mircea Eliade
"It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected."
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22 Quotes by Mircea Eliade
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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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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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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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I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.
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