Eric Voegelin quotes
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“The death of the spirit is the price of progress.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin (2012). “The New Science of Politics: An Introduction”, p.131, University of Chicago Press
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“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press
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“The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?”
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“Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin (1987). “The New Science of Politics: An Introduction”, p.173, University of Chicago Press
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“The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press
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“Don't immanentize the eschaton!”
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“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.185, University of Missouri Press
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“Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin (1989). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin: Hitler and the Germans”, University of Missouri Press
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“The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.”
-- Eric VoegelinSource : Eric Voegelin, Michael Franz (2000). “Order and History”, p.123, University of Missouri Press
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.21, Lulu.com
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Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
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“Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.48, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx) (1974). “Spiritual friendship”, Cistercian Pubns
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“A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.”
Source : Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”
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