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Eric Voegelin Quotes

1901–1985 Germany

Eric Voegelin (3 January 1901 – 19 January 1985) was a German-born American philosopher.

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Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it.

Eric Voegelin (1999)

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

Eric Voegelin (1987)

Enlightened utilitarianism is but the first in a series of totalitarian, sectarian movements to be followed later by Positivism, Communism and National Socialism.

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Eric Voegelin (1999)

We see again confirmed the correlation between spiritual impotence and antirationalism: one cannot deny God and retain reason.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin (1987)

'The order of history is the history of order.'

One can hardly engage in a serious study of medieval Christianity without discovering among its ‘values’ the belief in a rational science of human and social order and especially of natural law. Moreover, this science was not simply a belief, but it was actually elaborated as a work of reason.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eric Voegelin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.