Eric Voegelin: Quotes about history

Eric Voegelin was American philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on history.
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“The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.”

Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, ISBN 0226861147, p. 120

History , Future

“What was novel in Voegelin’s thought was that he wedded that commonplace to a theory of history, suggesting that a universal process of symbolization was surreptitiously at work in human civilization, giving world history a discernible direction.”

Eric Voegelin

Mark Lilla, "Mr. Casaubon in America", The New York Review of Books (June 28, 2007)

World , Wedding , History , Universe