Te trezeşti că ai devenit ceva, aproape fără să-ţi mai aminteşti începuturile acestei transformări. - Mircea Eliade

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Te trezeşti că ai devenit ceva, aproape fără să-ţi mai aminteşti începuturile acestei transformări.

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About Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.

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Printre marile anomalii ale lumii moderne se numără şi faptul că ştiinţa şi filosofia ne învaţă viaţa şi moartea. Gândiţi-vă o clipă la absurditatea acestui lucru: oameni care cunosc viaţa din laborator, o cunosc prin analize, îi cunosc fenomenele ei, şi oameni care gândesc asupra vieţii dintr-un cabinet, tocmai aceştia sunt chemaţi să ne înveţe cel mai esenţial şi cel mai decisiv fapt: existenţa noastră, moartea noastră. De altfel, ei nu fac decât să completeze şi să articuleze experienţele noastre negative, nefiinţa noastră.

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