Quotes from Eric Voegelin

La simbología intramundana perfecta viene ahora a cercenar el vínculo con Dios, apareciendo en su lugar la propia comunidad, como fuente de legitimación de la personalidad colectiva

Cuando la entidad colectiva intramundana ocupa el lugar de Dios, la persona se convierte en miembro al servicio del contenido mundano sacralizado, esto es, deviene instrumento(...). El problema de su modo de vida de su existencia física y espiritual solo resulta importante en relación con la existencia de la comunidad a la que pertenece(...).

Platão havia chegado a compreender algo que os modernos reformadores e revolucionários políticos são incapazes de compreender: que uma reforma não pode ser realizada por um líder bem intencionado que recrute os seus seguidores entre as mesmas pessoas cuja confusão moral é a fonte da desordem.

El mundo occidental atraviesa una grave crisis, un proceso de descomposición cuya causa es la secularización del espíritu, la separación de un espíritu mundanizado respecto de sus raíces religiosas.

Omul nu este nevoit sa fie partas la greselile epocii in care traieste

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

Los seres humanos pueden dejar que los contenidos mundanos se desarrollen hasta borrar del horizonte los conceptos de mundo y Dios, pero lo que no pueden hacer es eliminar la problematicidad de su propia existencia. Esta continúa viva en el alma de cada individuo, y cuando Dios queda eclipsado por el mundo, son los contenidos del mundo los que devienen dioses.

Popper is philosophically so uncultured, so fully a primitive ideological brawler, that he is not able to even approximately to reproduce correctly the contents of one page of Plato. Reading is of no use to him; he is too lacking in knowledge to understand what the author says.

The temptation to fall from uncertain truth into certain truth is stronger in the clarity of the Christian faith than in other spiritual structures. But the absence of a secure hold on reality and the demanding spiritual strain are generally characteristic of border experiences in which man's knowledge of transcendent being, and thereby of the origin and meaning of mundane being, is constituted.

O gnosticismo é um sistema de crenças que nega e rejeita a estrutura da realidade, particularmente a realidade da natureza humana, e substitui-as por um mundo imaginário construído por intelectuais gnósticos e controlado por activistas gnósticos.

It is dreadful to hear time and again that National Socialism is a return to barbarism, to the Dark Ages, to times before any new progress toward humanitarianism was made, without these speakers even suspecting that precisely the secularization of life that accompanied the doctrine of humanitarianism is the soil in which such an anti-Christian religious movement as National Socialism was able to prosper.

advocates of opinions who attack one another in daily politics are grouped together over against their common adversary, the philosopher. When

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.

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.