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1907–1998 Switzerland
Frithjof Schuon (Switzerland, 18 June 1907 – U.S.A., 5 May 1998) was a Swiss metaphysician and spiritual master of German descent, belonging to the Perennialist or Traditionalist School of thought. He was the author of more than twenty works in French on metaphysics, spirituality, the religious phenomenon, anthropology and art, which have been translated into English and many other languages.
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Without fear of God as a basis, nothing is possible spiritually, for the absence of fear is a lack of self-knowledge.
Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.
Virtue consists in allowing free passage, in the soul, to the Beauty of God.
Will for the Good and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.
The interiorization of beauty presupposes nobility of soul and at the same time produces it.
Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.
Man's thought, or his intelligence, is made for the divine Truth, and man's heart, or his being, is made for the divine Presence.
The human being, by his nature, is condemned to the supernatural.
Beauty is a reflection of divine beatitude; and since God is Truth, the reflection of His beatitude will be that blend of happiness and truth found in all beauty.
The sacred is an apparition of the Center, it immobilizes the soul and turns it towards the Inward.
Every injustice that we suffer at the hands of men is at the same time a trial that comes to us from God.
Consciousness of the Absolute is the prerogative of human intelligence, and also its aim.
There is no valid virtue without piety, and there is no authentic piety without virtue.
The beauty of the sacred is a symbol or a foretaste of, and sometimes a means for, the joy that God alone procures.
Every virtue is a participation in the Beauty of the One and a response to His Love.
Moral liberty and intellectual objectivity constitute a priori man’s deiformity.
Metaphysics is the science of the Absolute or the true nature of things.
The Intellect constitutes the raison d’être of the human condition.
Without religion − or without authentic religion − a human collectivity cannot survive in the long run; that is, it cannot remain human.
The double mission of man: to know the Absolute from the standpoint of the contingent, and to manifest the Absolute within the contingent.
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