Quotes from Richard Tarnas

And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity , constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.

education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.… Man is something that must be overcome.

The forms of mathematics, the harmonies of music, the motions of the planets, and the gods of the mysteries were all essentially related for Pythagoreans, and the meaning of that relation was revealed in an education that culminated in the human soul's assimilation to the world soul, and thence to the divine creative mind of the universe.

Cognition begins with sensation.

our intellectual quest for truth can never be separated from the cultivation of our moral and aesthetic imagination.

And this is the great challenge of our time, the evolutionary imperative for the masculine to see through and overcome its hubris and one-sidedness, to own its own unconscious shadow, to choose to enter into a fundamentally new relationship of mutuality with the feminine in all its forms.

the achievement of human autonomy has been paid for by the experience of human alienation.

La teoria redime i fenomeni; è una congettura fortunata.

La mente umana segue il sentiero archetipico numinoso che parte dal suo interno.

The suggestive patterning and often delicate precision of detail in such coincidences notoriously escape the net of objective assessments and experimental tests. Synchronicities seem to constitute a lived reality the experience of which depends deeply on the sensitive perception of context and nature.

In effect, the objective world has been ruled by the Enlightenment, the subjective world by Romanticism.

When God had completed the creation of the world as a sacred temple of his glory and wisdom, he conceived a desire for one last being whose relation to the whole and to the divine Author would be different from that of every other creature. At this ultimate moment God considered the creation of the human being, who he hoped would come to know and love the beauty, intelligence, and grandeur of the divine work...

the tricksterlike unpredictable spontaneity of the divine

Astrology," he stated, "represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.