Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.

- Mircea Eliade

Psychoanalysis justifies its importance by asserting that it forces you to look to and accept reality. But what sort of reality? A reality conditione…

- Mircea Eliade

Man makes himself, and he only makes himself completely in proportion as he desacrilizes himself and the world. The sacred is the prime obstacle to h…

- Mircea Eliade

I don't want to be mediocre, this is the fear of my soul and my body.

- Mircea Eliade

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himsel…

- Mircea Eliade

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

- Mircea Eliade

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

- Mircea Eliade

The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of relig…

- Mircea Eliade

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and th…

- Mircea Eliade