René Guénon

René Guénon

sagte · 1929

The true function of the priesthood, then, is above all one of knowledge and teaching, and this is why, as we said above, its proper attribute is wisdom.

René Guénon

sagte · 1929

It is worth noting that Protestantism suppresses the clergy, and though it claims to uphold the authority of the Bible, it in fact ruins it by 'free inquiry'.

René Guénon

sagte · 1929

Dante's corpus as a whole is in certain respects like a testament to the closing medieval age; it shows what the Western world would have been had it not broken from its tradition.

René Guénon

sagte · 1927

If an idea is true, it belongs equally to all who are capable of understanding it.

René Guénon

sagte · 1927

A philosopher's renown is increased more by inventing a new error than by repeating a truth that has already been expressed by others.