Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Voegelin

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Eric Voegelin was a German-American political philosopher. He was born in Cologne, and educated in political science at the University of Vienna, where he became an associate professor of political science in the law faculty. In 1938 he and his wife fled from the Nazi forces which had entered Vienna. They emigrated to the United States, where they became citizens in 1944. He spent most of his academic career at Louisiana State University, the University of Munich and the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.

American - Philosopher | January 3, 1901 - January 19, 1985

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Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

Eric Voegelin

Don't immanentize the eschaton!

Eric Voegelin

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Eric Voegelin

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

The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

Eric Voegelin

The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the Orient with its cyclical time and Christianity with its linear history. And what is modem about the modem mind, one may ask, if Hegel, Comte, or Marx, in order to create an image of history that will support their ideological imperialism, still use the same techniques for distorting the reality of history as their Sumerian predecessors?

Eric Voegelin

The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized. Such an immanentist hypostasis of the eschaton, however, is a theoretical fallacy.

Eric Voegelin

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.

Eric Voegelin

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

Eric Voegelin

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Voegelin

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