Top 5 Rudolf Otto Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.”

— Rudolf Otto

2. “But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.”

— Rudolf Otto

3. “A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.”

— Rudolf Otto

4. “That Krishna himself was a historical figure is indeed quite indubitable.”

— Rudolf Otto

5. “And ‘the holy’ will be, in Dr. Otto’s language, a complex category of the ‘numinous’ and the ‘moral’, or, in one of his favourite metaphors, a fabric in which we have the non-rational numinous experience as the woof and the rational and ethical as the warp.”

— Rudolf Otto

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