Quotes by : Mircea Eliade

Perhaps never before in history has the artist been so certain that the more daring, iconoclastic, absurd,....

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal....

The sacred tree, the sacred stone are not adored as stone or tree they are worshipped precisely because....

Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made.....

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his....

A non-religious man today ignores what he considers sacred but, in the structure of his consciousness,....

If Samkhya-Yoga philosophy does not explain the reason and origin of the strange partnership between....

It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming,....

And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this....