Mircea Eliade Quotes
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
Eliade, Mircea. Bengal Nights. Translated by Catherine Spencer, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
The Federal Fugitive Slave Act required all in free states to assist owners of escaped slaves to return them to their owners. The reaction in the North to the Fugitive Slave Act was extensive and even violent. See related quotes.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. He was a leading interpreter of religious experience, who established paradigms in religious studies that persist to this day. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
