Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Truth is not a product of the human mind
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Truth is not a product of the human mind; it exists independently of us, and it is simply for us to comprehend it; outside this knowledge there can be nothing but error.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: A normal civilization is one that rests on principles, one in which all is ordered and in a hierarchy consistent with these principles, so that everything is seen to be an application and extension of a metaphysical doctrine.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The distinctive characteristic of a traditional society is order.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The circumference in reality exists only in virtue of the center, but the beings that stand upon the circumference must necessarily start from there and follow the radius that leads to the center.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: In traditional civilizations a true hierarchy is always and everywhere preserved: the relative is not treated as non-existent, it is duly taken into consideration, but is put in its rightful place, which cannot but be a secondary and subordinate one
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The truths of a lower order can be taken as symbols of those of higher orders, and can therefore serve as supports by which one may arrive at an understanding of these; and this fact makes it possible for any science to become a sacred science.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: We are now in the fourth age, the Kali- Yuga or 'dark age', and have been so already, it is said, for more than six thousand years, that is to say since a time far earlier than any known to 'classical' history.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: There can be no accommodation between the traditional spirit and the modern spirit, any concession made to the latter being necessarily at the the expense of the former
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Psychology considers nothing but the subconscious and never the superconscious; this usage expresses the idea of an extension operating only in a downward direction, toward the most malefic influences of the inferior subtle domain
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The twofold significance of anonimity
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The modern West is said to be Christian, but this is untrue: the modern outlook is anti-Christian, because it is essentially anti-religious; and it is anti-religious because it is anti- traditional
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: In a traditional civilization, each object was made so that it could at any moment serve as a support for meditation, thus helping everyone to elevate himself to a superior state according to the measure of his capacities
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The more needs a man has, the greater the likelihood that he will lack something and thereby be unhappy; modern civilization aims at creating more and more artificial needs, and it will always create more needs than it can satisfy
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: If suggestions like 'equality' or 'progress', were to disappear, the general mentality would come very near to changing direction.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: Materialists, with all their boasted ‘good sense’ and ‘progress’ are really only beings in whom certain faculties have become atrophied to the extent of being completely abolished
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: As soon as it has lost all effective communication with the supra-individual intellect, reason cannot but tend more and more toward the lowest level, toward the inferior pole of existence, plunging ever more deeply into materiality
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: What the modern world has striven after with all its strength, even when it has claimed in its own way to pursue science, is really nothing other than the development of industry and machinery
Traditional Quotes and Symbols: The 'profane' presume to discuss what is sacred, and to contest its character and even its existence; the inferior judges the superior, ignorance sets bounds to wisdom, error prevails over truth, the human is substituted for the Divine