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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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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Page xi
... man as such, the man of all times. Thus even if our subsequent works contain a complete doctrine—the sophia perennis or, if one prefers, integral traditionalism—it seems to us that the present collection deserves to be preserved from ...
... man as such, the man of all times. Thus even if our subsequent works contain a complete doctrine—the sophia perennis or, if one prefers, integral traditionalism—it seems to us that the present collection deserves to be preserved from ...
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... man cannot rise above it. Quite clearly a definition possesses value only through its objectivity, that is, through the absence of error; on the other hand one cannot seek to enclose the Universe within “human subjectivity” while at the ...
... man cannot rise above it. Quite clearly a definition possesses value only through its objectivity, that is, through the absence of error; on the other hand one cannot seek to enclose the Universe within “human subjectivity” while at the ...
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... man dared to dignify this perception of his own existence and his freedom to choose between apples and pears as if it were a kind of wisdom . * Is it always “ man who chooses ” ? And who then is this “ man who chooses ” ? Where is his ...
... man dared to dignify this perception of his own existence and his freedom to choose between apples and pears as if it were a kind of wisdom . * Is it always “ man who chooses ” ? And who then is this “ man who chooses ” ? Where is his ...
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... man to prove that white is black or that two and two make five. This attitude is all the more incurable in that it invests facts with an apparent homogeneity, an illusion confirming man in his error; suspicion in fact never has any ...
... man to prove that white is black or that two and two make five. This attitude is all the more incurable in that it invests facts with an apparent homogeneity, an illusion confirming man in his error; suspicion in fact never has any ...
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... man the Intellect is in conflict with the ego. The masses may be a vehicle of the spirit in a summary fashion, but of themselves they become the mouthpiece for everything subhuman in man; they are equivalent to nature, which is ...
... man the Intellect is in conflict with the ego. The masses may be a vehicle of the spirit in a summary fashion, but of themselves they become the mouthpiece for everything subhuman in man; they are equivalent to nature, which is ...
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