When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cul… - Mircea Eliade

Deci mutatia a avut loc în epoca — mitica sau nu, putin îmi pasa, eu, ca om de stiinta, nu ma las impresionat de cuvinte — a avut loc în epoca imediat urmatoare izgonirii din Paradis. Pedeapsa de care vorbeste capitolul III din cartea Genezei aceasta a fost: amnezia. Corpul omenesc a uitat pur si simplu ca fusese înzestrat cu o functiune capitala: autoregenerarea celulelor...

Îmi dau foarte bine seama că o femeie poate gusta un dans cu un partener imperfect, dacă acesta nu e cu desăvârşire un imbecil. Stângăciile, ca şi timiditatea, au un farmec discret prin surprizele care le provoacă, prin panica naivă care o răspândesc. Femeile iubesc uneori imperfecţiunile acestea atât de calde...

"In short, the majority of men "without religion" still hold to pseudo religions and degenerated mythologies, There is nothing surprising in this, for, as we saw, profane man is the descendant of homo religiosus and he cannot wipe out his own history — that is, the behavior of his religious ancestors which has made him what he is today. This is all the more true because a great part of his existence is fed by impulses that come to him from the depths of his being, from the zone that has been called the "unconscious," A purely rational man is an abstraction; he is never found in real life. Every human being is made up at once of his conscious activity and his irrational experiences."