Voegelin Quotes

#1. Where Gnosticism regards the world as demonic and hostile, existentialism considers it natural and indifferent.14 In short, Jonas is far less intent than Voegelin in making Gnosticism modern.

C. G. Jung

#2. I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Emma Donoghue

#3. Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Eric Voegelin

#4. Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, I already have, mister.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

Winston Churchill

#6. Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.

Rupert Brooke

#7. I think when you've played at the level that I've played, anything outside the top 10 in certain aspects is just a number, unless you're obviously trying to get into tournaments and stuff.

Michael Chang

#8. The cause of bandha and moksha (bondage and liberation) is our own minds. If we think we are bound, we are bound. If we think we are liberated, we are liberated ... It is only when we transcend the mind that we are free from all these troubles. (117)

Swami Satchidananda

#9. keep me comfortable." "He must have been a kind man too." Margie's round face melted into a buttery

Angela Elwell Hunt

#10. [Under Marxism] Christ the Redeemer is replaced by the steam engine as the promise of the realm to come.

Eric Voegelin

#11. The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

Eric Voegelin

#12. When people tell you what doesn't work, they're usually right. When they tell you how to fix it, they're usually wrong.

Bill Hader

#13. Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when
you're running yourself.

Bill McKibben

#14. The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no edios, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Eric Voegelin

#15. Don't immanentize the eschaton!

Eric Voegelin

#16. The sea is made of salt tears we say and the waves are made of the griefs of men but I am sorry so many should fall upon you.

Rachel Neumeier

#17. Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Eric Voegelin

#18. What do you call a hundred blondes stacked on top of each other? An air mattress.

Various

#19. The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

Eric Voegelin

#20. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Mark McCormack