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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 Eric Voegelin (1987)

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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.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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