Eric Voegelin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
-- Eric Voegelin

#Progress #Spirit
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 Voegelin

#Philosophy #Spring #Philosophical
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?
-- Eric Voegelin

#Block #Philosophy #Reality
Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.
-- Eric Voegelin

#Reality #Self #Warfare
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 Voegelin

#Christian #Problem #Transcendental
Don't immanentize the eschaton!
-- Eric Voegelin
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 Voegelin

#Unknown Future
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 Voegelin

#Men #Special #President
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 Voegelin

#Lying #Balance #Cosmos

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
As much progress as we think we've made with legislation, litigation and education, anti-Semitism still continues to be the No. 2 hate crime in the United States. You can't eliminate it, but you can try to keep a lid on it.
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
Let us honor the Holy Ghost.
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.
A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.
We can express our worship to God in many ways. But if we love the Lord and are led by His Holy Spirit, our worship will always bring a delighted sense of admiring awe and a sincere humility on our part.
Yoga is when you feel pure consciousness and spirit.

Eric Voegelin famous quotes

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