Autobiographical Reflections
Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age. The book provides a veritable catalog of the thinkers who created the intellectual foundation of the twentieth century. Voegelin's association with and recollection of these men provide fresh insight into their thought as well. Voegelin discusses their contributions to his own development and to the consciousness of the age. In the course of these reminiscences there emerges a portrait of a man of wit, courage, affability, and principle. |
"The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion
is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt
in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
--
Albert Einstein
"Come forth into the Light of things. Let Nature be your teacher."
-- William Wordsworth
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain and our heart is our temple. The philosophy is kindness."
-- Dalai Lama
"There is only one good...knowledge. There is only one evil... ignorance."
-- The Death of Socrates
"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."
-- Aristotle
-- Cicero
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-- Albert Einstein
"If any man wish to write in a clear style let him be first clear in his thought and if any would write in a noble style let him first posess a noble soul."
-- Goethe
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
--Galileo Galilei
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