“Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.”
[2007, Spiritual Perspectives and Human Facts, World Wisdom, 28, 978-1-933316-42-0]
Spiritual life, Sacred art
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Frithjof Schuon 82
Swiss philosopher 1907–1998Related quotes
c. 1910; as quoted in: Der Blick auf Fränzi und Marcella: Zwei Modelle der Brücke-Künstler Heckel, Kirchner und Pechstein, Norbert Nobis; Sprengel Museum Hannover und Stiftung Moritzburg, 2011, p 17
1905 - 1915
“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
“But when a man
speeds toward his own ruin,
a god gives him help.”
Source: The Persians (472 BC), line 742 (tr. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington)
“The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature.”
Rose, Blanche, and Violet (London: Smith, Elder, 1848) vol. 1, pp. viii-ix
Context: The moral nature of man is more sacred in my eyes than his intellectual nature. I know they cannot be divorced — that without intelligence we should be Brutes — but it is the tendency of our gaping, wondering dispositions to give pre-eminence to those faculties which most astonish us. Strength of character seldom, if ever, astonishes; goodness, lovingness, and quiet self-sacrifice, are worth all the talents in the world.
“God is an infinite circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
ibid.
“Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God.”
The Artist, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.”
For a discussion of this quotation, which is uncertain in origin but was quoted long before Voltaire, see the following: http://symbio.trick.ca/HomeSashaOnePageBible[2016-05-29]
Misattributed
“Love of the sacred implies love of God, and inversely, the sacred is the perfume of Heaven.”
[2016, La conscience de l’Absolu, Hozhoni, 60, 978-2-37241-020-5]
Spiritual life, Sense of the sacred