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Human Facts is a fully revised translation of the French edition, and has an extensive Appendix containing previously unpublished letters and other private writings.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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... order logical proof is no more than a thoroughly provisional crystallization of intuition, the modes of which are incalculable because of the complexity of the real. * * * One can most certainly prove every truth; but not every 3.
... order logical proof is no more than a thoroughly provisional crystallization of intuition, the modes of which are incalculable because of the complexity of the real. * * * One can most certainly prove every truth; but not every 3.
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... mode of thought. Between rationalism and existentialism there is a relationship analogous—though not identical—to that which exists between artistic naturalism and “surrealism”; without the errors of natu- ralism surrealism would be ...
... mode of thought. Between rationalism and existentialism there is a relationship analogous—though not identical—to that which exists between artistic naturalism and “surrealism”; without the errors of natu- ralism surrealism would be ...
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... 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 human system of thought, which for that very reason does not know that real ...
... 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 human system of thought, which for that very reason does not know that real ...
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... modes of intelligence to which they are unaccustomed. There is more intelligence in African rhythms than in most psychological novels. * * * The liberty traditional civilizations guarantee is qualitative and real- istic. Modernity's ...
... modes of intelligence to which they are unaccustomed. There is more intelligence in African rhythms than in most psychological novels. * * * The liberty traditional civilizations guarantee is qualitative and real- istic. Modernity's ...
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