Esoteric Quotes

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.

That for me is what intrigues me the most about feature films. It's not like the little kind of esoteric projects that you and your friends get but how do you make something that has a universal appeal. Those are the movies that intrigue me the most.

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

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

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

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.

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.

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.

No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.

Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models tend to look impressive. Too often, though, investors forget to examine the assumptions behind the models. Beware of geeks bearing formulas.

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.

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.

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

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

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

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery.

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.

I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

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

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

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