Exile's Odyssey Quotes

“Any religion is a book sealed with seven seals for the one who doesn’t understand that witnesses to the beliefs and thoughts of ancient man are to be found always in nature. The fall of man into history brought with it the participation of nature in history.”
― Mircea Eliade, Exile's Odyssey

“What if all those powers that once upon a time terrified the mind and soul of man, and in which almost no one in our day believes, still continue their magic, unbeknown to anyone, in a world hermetically sealed?”
― Mircea Eliade, Exile's Odyssey

“Melancholy, a major instrument of cognition, the only one capable of disturbing and shaking the imperialistic security of theology...”
― Mircea Eliade, Exile's Odyssey

“Berne A remarkable discovery today in the window of a toyshop. Not only lead soldiers of all sizes and poses—but also a large number of tanks. Some of them are quite realistic, with machine guns in the turret and wheels encircled with tracks. Locomotives are no longer in fashion today, in children’s toys—not even in Switzerland.”
― Mircea Eliade, Mircea Eliade: Autobiography: Exile's Odyssey, 1937–1960