Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts: A New Translation with Selected LettersThis new edition of Frithjof Schuon's Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings. |
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... is more harmful than this mental erosion of a truth ; it is as though true ideas took their revenge on anyone who limits him- self to thinking about them . He whose being is too exclusively anchored in thought , 5 Thought and Civilization.
... is more harmful than this mental erosion of a truth ; it is as though true ideas took their revenge on anyone who limits him- self to thinking about them . He whose being is too exclusively anchored in thought , 5 Thought and Civilization.
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... true, but are “accepted” rather than “understood”. The word “thinker” implies that an individual activity is attributed to knowledge, and this is significant. As for the “contemplative”, he is able to abstain from “thinking”: the act of ...
... true, but are “accepted” rather than “understood”. The word “thinker” implies that an individual activity is attributed to knowledge, and this is significant. As for the “contemplative”, he is able to abstain from “thinking”: the act of ...
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... true symbolism as is naturalism itself. Nonetheless it is possible in principle that a surrealist work may accidentally rejoin symbolic art at some point, just as an imaginative and “experimental” philosophy may rejoin traditional ...
... true symbolism as is naturalism itself. Nonetheless it is possible in principle that a surrealist work may accidentally rejoin symbolic art at some point, just as an imaginative and “experimental” philosophy may rejoin traditional ...
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... true intuition, even a fundamental one, could not assume a definitive function in a mode of thought as anarchical as modern philosophy; it must always be condemned to remain merely an inef- fectual glimmer in the history of an entirely ...
... true intuition, even a fundamental one, could not assume a definitive function in a mode of thought as anarchical as modern philosophy; it must always be condemned to remain merely an inef- fectual glimmer in the history of an entirely ...
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... True objectivity does not set up an opposition between cold and heat but transcends them both: like emptiness it stands opposed to a false plenitude, whether hot or cold, or like silence to a heavy and blind affirmation. In too many ...
... True objectivity does not set up an opposition between cold and heat but transcends them both: like emptiness it stands opposed to a false plenitude, whether hot or cold, or like silence to a heavy and blind affirmation. In too many ...
Contents
Selections from Letters and Other Previously | 231 |
Editors Notes | 247 |
Glossary of Foreign Terms and Phrases | 277 |
Index | 287 |
Biographical Notes | 297 |
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Page 266 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 271 - And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one ; to every man according to his several ability ; and straightway took his journey.
Page 270 - He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 254 - Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Page 274 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Page 253 - The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Page 253 - Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old ? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born ? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 254 - He saith unto him, Which ? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother : and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 254 - Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven : and come and follow me.
Page 248 - And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.