Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness. - Mircea Eliade

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.

The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life. This is not only because an understanding of exotic and archaic religions will significantly assist in a cultural dialogue with the representatives of such religions. It is more especially because … the history of religions will inevitably attain to a deeper knowledge of man. It is on the basis of such knowledge that a new humanism, on a world-wide scale, could develop.

Căci ăsta mi se pare lucrul cel mai greu de învăţat în contemplarea iubitei: să ştii cum să-i priveşti ochii. Uneori, privirile noastre lovesc atât de nepriceput oglinda ochilor iubitei, încât o turbură, aburind-o; sau, şi mai grav, fac ochii opaci, le dă un luciu de teracotă, de smalţ colorat. Şi sunt, de asemenea, priviri crâncene, care smulg retina sau o pătrund sălbatic, sângerând-o, sau o întunecă...