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Mircea Eliade1907–1986

Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane.

Mircea Eliade on religion

The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion (1959), trans. Willard R. Trask, Introduction

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