Zitate von René Guénon
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René Guénon
Geburtstag: 15. November 1886
Todesdatum: 7. Januar 1951
René Jean-Marie Joseph Guénon war ein französischer Metaphysiker und esoterischer Schriftsteller. Guénon gilt als Begründer der Traditionalistischen Schule.
Zitate René Guénon
„If an idea is true, it belongs equally to all who are capable of understanding it.“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 73
„The guiding function exercised by a true elect, and even the very existence of this elect—since it must exercise this function if it exists at all—is utterly incompatible with democracy. … A real elect, as we have said, can only be an intellectual one; and that is why democracy can arise only where pure intellectuality no longer exists, as is the case in the modern world.“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 98
„Is it because Westerners have come to lose their intellectuality through over-developing their capacity for action that they console themselves by inventing theories which set action above everything, and even go so far, as in the case of pragmatism, as to deny that there exists anything of value beyond action; or is the contrary true, that it is the acceptance of this point of view that has led to the intellectual atrophy we see today?“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 47
„It is, however, only in the nineteenth century that one sees men beginning to glory in their ignorance—for to proclaim oneself an agnostic means nothing else—and claiming to forbid others any knowledge to which they themselves have no access; and this marked one stage further in the intellectual decline of the West.“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 59
„Philosophy … is interesting because it expresses, in a form as clearly defined as possible, the tendencies of this or that period, much more than it really creates them; and even if it can be said to direct them to a certain extent, it does so only secondarily and when they are already formed.“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 75
„The truth is that there is really no "profane realm" that could in any way be opposed to a "sacred realm"; there is only a "profane point of view", which is really none other than the point of view of ignorance.“
Initiation et réalisation spirituelle (Initiation And Spiritual Realization) (1952)
„There are people whose mind would recoil from actual negation, but who have no objection to complete indifference; and it is this that is the most to be feared, for, to deny something, one must think about it to some extent, however little that may be, whereas an attitude of indifference makes it possible not to think about it at all.“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 103
„Have we not arrived at that terrible age, announced in the Sacred Books of India, "when the castes shall be mingled, when even the family shall no longer exist?"“
La crise du monde moderne (The Crisis of the Modern World) (1927)
„There is thus all the more reason to exercise extreme vigilance … against anything that may lead the being to become "fused," or preferably and more accurately "confused" or even "dissolved," in a sort of "cosmic consciousness" that shuts out all "transcendence" and so also shuts out all effective spirituality. This is the ultimate consequence of all the anti-metaphysical errors known more especially in their philosophical aspect by such names as "pantheism," "immanentism," and "naturalism."“
Quelle: The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times (1945), p. 288
„There is exact correspondence between a world where everything seems to be in a state of mere “becoming,” leaving no place for the changeless and permanent, and the state of mind of men who find all reality in this same “becoming,” denying by implication true knowledge as well as the object of that knowledge, by which we mean the transcendent and universal principles.“
Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 51
„What is to be said of someone who flings himself into the Ocean and has no aspiration but to drown himself in it? This is precisely the significance of the so-called "fusion" with a "cosmic consciousness" which is really nothing but the confused and indistinct assemblage of all the psychic influences.“
Quelle: The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times (1945), p. 289
