Esoteric Quotes

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Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

We try more to profit from always remembering the obvious than from grasping the esoteric.

The most important thing I have done is to combine something esoteric with a practical issue that affects many people.

It is an esoteric doctrine of society, that a little wickedness is good to make muscle; as if conscience were not good for hands and legs.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is that you're not able to hear.

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.

All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a esoteric mechanism to continue my real intentions.

In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

We are so busy and have become so complex, being simple is actually esoteric.

You cannot expect your children to be happy eating esoteric beige-colored foods when their friends get soda pop, Snickers, and Twinkies.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

A lot of times I think people, when they're doing a movie that's a family movie, they're worried about this being too esoteric or too dark or too weird.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.

I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women.

Anyone who’s ever put a stamp on an envelope or a note on their refrigerator knows what it’s like to make a collage. There’s no esoteric technique.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

I'm after something far more esoteric than a virginal shag. Though, if you'd like, darlin', I'm certainly up for the task.

Every political sect has its esoteric and its exoteric school--its abstract doctrines for the initiated; its visible symbols, its imposing forms, its mythological fables, for the vulgar.

I think [H. P. Lovecraft] knew the whole gamut. He just didn't believe any of it! He probably liked to use the esoteric stuff because he knew it would tick people off and freak them out.

I think that the melodic piece of the puzzle in music is the most esoteric and difficult to quantify.

When we become expert in something, our tastes grow more esoteric and complex.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

When you write about esoteric things, it can be way out there.

An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment is not just a ceremony.

Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.

A time comes when it isn't enough to read about Buddha, we wish to have that happen to ourselves. That's when we move from the exoteric to the esoteric, from religion to mysticism.

Buddhism is not just going to temple, being at a ceremony and dressing up. That is the church of Buddhism. Esoteric Buddhism is to move beyond this world.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation.

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts.