Patterns in Comparative Religion Quotes

“Sacredness is, above all, real.”
― Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion

“Myth is an autonomous act of creation by the mind: it is through that act of creation that revelation is brought about – not through the things or events it makes use of.”
― Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion

“Myth expresses in action and drama what metaphysics and theology define dialectically.”
― Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion

“The main function of myth is to determine the exemplar models of all ritual, and of all significant human acts.”
― Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion

“The myth, like the novel, signifies primarily an autonomous act of creation by the mind.”
― Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion

“Nowhere in the history of religions do we find an adoration of any natural object in itself. A sacred thing, whatever its form and substance, is sacred because it reveals or shares in ultimate reality. Every religious object is always an “incarnation” of something: of the sacred.”
― Mircea Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion