Religious Studies Scholar

🇩🇪Leopold von Schroeder

Education

1851–1920

"The Indians are the nation of romanticists of antiquity. The Germans are the romantics of modem times. SentImentality and feelings for Nature are common to both German and Indian poetry."

Mircea Eliade

Literature

1907–1986

"The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the "founding of the world": where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence."

🇫🇷Rashi

Religion

1040–1105

"from this that we tell only part of a man's qualities in his presence, and all of them when he is not present." Genesis 7,1"

🇻🇳Thích Nhất Hạnh

Literature

Engaged Buddhism

1926–2022

"Chanting from the heart: Buddhist ceremonies and daily practices"

"Islamic revival sought the reunification of the spiritual with the social-political, and of contemporary life with cultural traditions, against the western imperialism that was forcing their separation."

🇩🇪Max Müller

Religion

1823–1900

"India must be conquered again, and that second conquest should be a conquest by education."

Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle

Philosophy

Classicism

1657–1757

"Fontenelle's Dialogues of the Dead Tr. John Hughes"

🇺🇸David Bentley Hart

Literature

b. 1965

"Beauty crosses every boundary, traverses every series, and so manifests the God who transcends every division."

"The theory and practice of the Tantric mandala operates on a mesocosmic level , that is, on the level of a mediating template between protocosm and metacosm as well as between macrocosm and microcosm."

🇮🇪Jack Thompson (attorney)

Law

1943–2017

"This is not rocket science. When a kid who has never killed anyone in his life goes on a rampage and looks like the Terminator, he's a video gamer."