Mircea Eliade Quotes
When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.
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Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself.
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Silence is a lawyer who pleads with his eyes.
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Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
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There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.
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Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
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Do you believe in God, doctor?" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original.
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It's never popular among young people to be part of the establishment.
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When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.
