Frithjof Schuon: Citations en anglais

Frithjof Schuon était métaphysicien, théologien et philosophe suisse. Citations en anglais.
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“There is no access to the Heart without the virtues.”

Frithjof Schuon

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 16, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual path, Virtue

“Every virtue is a participation in the Beauty of the One and a response to His Love.”

Frithjof Schuon

[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 20, 978-1-93659700-0]
Spiritual path, Virtue

“Humanly, no one escapes the obligation to "believe in order to be able to understand"”

Frithjof Schuon

credo ut intelligam
[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 33, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual life, Faith

“The double mission of man: to know the Absolute from the standpoint of the contingent, and to manifest the Absolute within the contingent.”

Frithjof Schuon

[2014, In the Face of the Absolute, World Wisdom, xii, 978-1-936597-41-3]
Human being, Specificities

“There is no valid virtue without piety, and there is no authentic piety without virtue.”

Frithjof Schuon

[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 70, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual path, Virtue

“Virtue consists in allowing free passage, in the soul, to the Beauty of God.”

Frithjof Schuon

[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 87, 978-1-93659765-9]
Spiritual path, Virtue

“First of all one has to answer the question of why the painful experiences that man must undergo are called "trials."”

Frithjof Schuon

We would reply that these experiences are trials in relation to our faith, which indicates that with regard to troubling or painful experiences we have duties resulting from our human vocation; in other words, we must prove our faith in relation to God and in relation to ourselves. In relation to God, by our intelligence, our sense of the absolute, and thus our sense of relativities and proportions; and in relation to ourselves, by our character, our resignation to destiny, our gratitude. There are in fact two ways to overcome the traces that evil, or more precisely suffering, leaves in the soul: these are, firstly, our awareness of the Sovereign Good, which coincides with our hope to the extent that this awareness penetrates us; and secondly, our acceptance of what, in religious language, is called the "will of God"; and assuredly it is a great victory over oneself to accept a destiny because it is God's will and for no other reason.
[2003, Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism, World Wisdom, 215, 978-0-94153227-3]
Spiritual life, Trials

“The sacred introduces a quality of the absolute into relativities and confers on perishable things a texture of eternity.”

Frithjof Schuon livre Comprendre l'Islam

[1998, Understanding Islam, World Wisdom, 45, 0-941532-24-0]
Spiritual life, Sense of the sacred

“Only the science of the Absolute gives meaning and discipline to the science of the relative.”

Frithjof Schuon

[2013, From the Divine to the Human, World Wisdom, 119, 978-1-936597-32-1]
Spiritual path, Knowledge

“Will for the Good and love of the Beautiful are the necessary concomitants of knowledge of the True, and their repercussions are incalculable.”

Frithjof Schuon livre De l'Unité transcendante des religions

[1993, The Transcendent Unity of Religions, Quest Books, 152, 978-0-8356-0587-8]
Spiritual path, Knowledge