Tao Te Ching
Mircea Eliade
1907 – 1986 CE
Theologian of the Sacred, philosopher, professor, historian of religion, journalist who “never read newspapers,” and novel writer; Eliade became one of the most influential interpreters of religious experience. As a very conservative youth, he supported far right ideologies; but, during his later life, this support shifted toward the non-Marxist Left and the hippie youth movement. Although an admirer of Gandhi and non-violence, he was accused of antisemitism and support of fascism. He was identified with far-right politics but fired from a University position because of an attack by the far-right press. His theories and descriptions of religious experience (in particular hierophanies and the “Eternal Return”) established paradigms for religious studies still accepted today.
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Quotes by Mircea Eliade (14 quotes)
“The person who understands a symbol emerges from their personal experience and understands something universal.”
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“The person who understands a symbol emerges from their personal experience and understands something universal.”
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“A religious symbol conveys its message even if it is no longer consciously understood in every part. For a symbol speaks to the whole human being and not only to the intelligence.”
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“The sacred is the prime obstacle to his freedom. He will become himself only when he is totally demysticized. He will not be truly free until he has killed the last god.”
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“As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth.”
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“The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.”
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“Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality—the source of all possible existence.”
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“The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.”
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“Where the sacred manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.”
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“For those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as sacred world.”
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“Christianity strives to save history… In Christianity, the Sacred enters a human being to save humans, but it also enters history to ‘save’ history and turn otherwise ordinary, historical events into something capable of transmitting a trans-historical message.”
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“One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.”
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“To believe that I could—at 23—sacrifice history and culture for 'the Absolute' was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.”
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