Mircea Eliade Quote

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for "the Absolute" was further proof that I had not understood India. My vocation was culture, not sainthood.


As quoted in Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade (2002) by Douglas Allen, p. 216.


To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My...

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My...

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My...

To believe that I could, at twenty-three, sacrifice history and culture for the Absolute was further proof that I had not understood India. My...