Eliade Hierophany Quotes & Sayings

Hardware can't argue. — C.A. Higgins

Our future is in our hands. — Dalai Lama XIV

At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures. — Rebecca Solnit

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany ... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity. — Mircea Eliade

I only know in general that the people we are going to see are very atrabilious. — Voltaire

The service leaders hire one out of 50 applicants, sometimes one out of 100, but they're very, very careful. You can't afford not to be extremely choosy when you hire. — Harvey MacKay

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. — Mircea Eliade

Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world. — Daniel Schacter

synthetic judgments a priori should not "be possible" at all; we have no right to them; in our mouths they are nothing but false judgments. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it. — Tom Nelson

known or unknown to the author, and all incidents are pure — Lena Dowling