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Quotes from The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion — Mircea Eliade

d. 1986 Romania

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The History of Religions is destined to play an important role in contemporary cultural life.

The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969)

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.

The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969)

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.

The Quest: History and Meaning in Religion (1969)

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