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Quotes from The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times — René Guénon

1886–1951 France

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The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.

The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times (1945)

What is to be said of someone who flings himself into the Ocean and has no aspiration but to drown himself in it? This is precisely the significance of the so-called "fusion" with a "cosmic consciousness" which is really nothing but the confused and indistinct assemblage of all the psychic influences.

The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times (1945)

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