"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."

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Source : Mircea Eliade (2005). “The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History”, p.5, Princeton University Press

Mircea Eliade

#Men Quotes #Reality Quotes #Identity Quotes

“God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”
“What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated.”
“It's easier to eat nothing than to eat something.”
“A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.”
“There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.”
“Doing things for others always pays dividends...”

Source : Claude M. Bristol (2014). “The Magic of Believing”, p.111, Courier Corporation
“When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them”
“If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.”

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