4 Quotes & Sayings By Rudolf Otto

Rudolf Otto is known as the "Father of the Psychology of Religion". He was a German theologian and a Protestant Christian who served as a professor at the University of Munich. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, whose work changed the way people look at religion and spirituality. Otto's work informed a generation of scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, from scholars such as Sigmund Freud to Aldous Huxley, from Carl Jung to Erich Fromm.

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A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. Rudolf Otto
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To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written. Rudolf Otto
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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