In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The history of our spiritual life is a continuing search for the unity between ourselves and the world. Religion, art, and science follow, one and all, this aim.
We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar.
We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens.
We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion.
We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
We live in an epoch of denudation.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.