Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane. Mircea Eliade More Quotes by Mircea Eliade More Quotes From Mircea Eliade And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is. Mircea Eliade melancholyrealizinguseless Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditioned by the materialistic and scientific ideology of psychoanalysis, that is, a historical product. Mircea Eliade historicalrealitylooks to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe. Mircea Eliade capableuniverse The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality. Mircea Eliade identitymenreality 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. Mircea Eliade embarrassing-questionsproblemanswers To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood. Mircea Eliade sacrificetwentiesbelieve Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things. Mircea Eliade speaklifedeathreligion
