The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their particip… - Mircea Eliade

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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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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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Nu gasesti umilitor ca ai fi putut fi cu desavarsire altul daca te-ai fi nascut la New York in loc de a te naste la Bucuresti? Noi toti suntem din intamplare asa cum suntem. Am fi putut citi alte carti in liceu, am fi putut cunoaste alti oameni, am fi putut calatori in alte tari, am fi putut iubi alte femei...
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.
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