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.

Eliade used the concepts from The Idea of the Holy as the starting point for his own 1957 book The Sacred and the Profane. Otto was one of the very few modern theologians to whom C. Others to acknowledge Otto were for instance Martin Heidegger Leo Strauss John A.