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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. Wikipedia

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Zitate René Guénon

„Die Metaphysik ist jenseits und über die Natur hinausgehend, sie ist das eigentlich 'Übernatürliche'.“

— René Guénon

La Métaphysique Orientale

„Die orientalische Metaphysik ist viel mehr und anders als eine rein menschliche und rationale Erkenntnis, profan und oberflächlich.“

— René Guénon

La Métaphysique Orientale

„Die Vernunft ist eine eigentlich und spezifisch menschliche Fähigkeit; was sich jedoch jenseits der Vernunft befindet ist wirklich 'nicht-menschlich' und das ist was die metaphysische Erkenntnis ermöglicht, und diese - man muss es nochmal sagen - ist kein menschliches Wissen.“

— René Guénon

La Métaphysique Orientale

„The “end of a world” never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion.“

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— René Guénon, buch The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (1945)

„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.“

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— René Guénon

Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 103

„It is contradictory to say that the same person can be at the same time ruler and ruled. … The great ability of those who are in control in the modern world lies in making the people believe that they are governing themselves; and the people are the more inclined to believe this as they are flattered by it, as they are in any case incapable of sufficient reflection to see its impossibility. It was to create this illusion that “universal suffrage” was invented: the law is supposed to be made by the opinion of the majority, but what is overlooked is that this opinion is something that can very easily be guided and modified; it is always possible, by means of suitable suggestions, to arouse in it currents moving in this or that direction as desired. We cannot recall who it was that first spoke of “manufacturing opinion,” but this expression is very apt.“

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— René Guénon

Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 93

„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.“

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— René Guénon

Initiation et réalisation spirituelle (Initiation And Spiritual Realization) (1952)

„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.“

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— René Guénon

Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 59

„Since equality is in fact impossible, and since, despite all attempts at reducing everything to one level, the differences between one man and another cannot in practice be entirely suppressed, men have been brought, illogically enough, to invent false hierarchies, whose higher ranks claim to take the place of the only true elect; and these false hierarchies are built up exclusively on the basis of relative and contingent considerations, always of a purely material order. This is very obvious from the fact that the kind of social distinction which counts the most in the present state of things is that based on wealth, that is to say on a merely external superiority of an exclusively quantitative order, the only superiority, as a matter of fact, that is consistent with democracy, based as it is on the same point of view.“

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Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 98

„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.“

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— René Guénon

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?“

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— René Guénon

Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 47

„Matter is essentially multiplicity and division; and this, be it said in passing, is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples and between individuals. The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, on the other hand, the more one rises towards pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches to that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of the universal principles.“

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Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 50

„There can be only one way out of the chaos, in the social domain as in all others: the restoration of intellectuality, which would result in the formation once more of an elect.“

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Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 99

„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.“

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Quelle: The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times (1945), p. 289

„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.“

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Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 75

„It is true that the masses have always been led in one manner or another, and it could be said that their part in history consists primarily in allowing themselves to be led, since they represent a merely passive element, a “matter” in the Aristotelian sense of the word. But, to lead them today, it is sufficient to dispose of purely material means, … and this shows clearly to what depths our age has sunk. At the same time the masses are made to believe that they are not being led, but that they are acting spontaneously and governing themselves, and the fact that they believe this is a sign from which the extent of their stupidity may be inferred.“

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— René Guénon

Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 109

„Metaphysics, because it opens out a limitless vista of possibilities, must take care never to lose sight of the inexpressible, which indeed constitutes its very essence.“

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— René Guénon, buch Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines

Introduction générale à l'étude des doctrines hindoues (Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines) (1921)

„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.“

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Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 51

„A community conceived only as the arithmetical sum of its component individuals; a community is, in fact, no more than this once it ceases to be attached to any principle higher than the individuals.“

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Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 96

„“Aristocracy,” … taken in its etymological sense, means precisely the power of the elect. The elect, by the very definition of the word, can only be the few, and their power, or rather their authority, being due to their intellectual superiority, has nothing in common with the numerical strength on which democracy is based, a strength whose inherent tendency is to sacrifice the minority to the majority, and therefore quality to quantity and the elect to the masses.“

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— René Guénon

Quelle: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), pp. 97-98

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