Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliade
Mircea Eliadewas 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 influential contributions to religious studies was his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths...
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth9 March 1907
CountryRomania
Mircea Eliade quotes about
And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.
to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.