Esoteric quotes

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

#Art #Esoteric #Conformity

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.
-- Alfred Rupert Hall

#Real #Esoteric #Grain

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.
-- Anthony Braxton

#Real #Discipline #Esoteric

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.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey

#Esoteric #Ingredients #Facts

'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.
-- Benjamin B. Dunlap

#Forever #Excellence #Esoteric

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

#Trying #Esoteric #Remember

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

#Support #Acting #Esoteric

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.
-- Chuck Jones

#Ordinary #Needs #Esoteric

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

#Fields #Esoteric #Learning From Others

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

#Long #People #Esoteric

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.
-- David Mumford

#Lasts #Esoteric #Reputation

Abstraction is an esoteric language.
-- Eric Fischl

#Esoteric #Painting #Language

To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery of academic and hermeneutic notice. Reciprocally, the academy turns towards that which appears to require its exegetic, cryptographic skills.
-- George Steiner

#Art #Skills #Esoteric

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.
-- H. P. Blavatsky

#Philosophy #Esoteric #Tradition

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.
-- Hedi Slimane

#Fashion #Emotional #Esoteric

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.
-- Kenneth Coutts-Smith

#Usual #Esoteric #Revealing

When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.
-- Paul Brunton

#Spiritual #Achievement #Esoteric

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.
-- Warren Buffett

#Looks #Esoteric #Assumption

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
-- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

#Doubt #Esoteric #Firsts

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...
-- William Ralph Inge

#Greek #Mouths #Esoteric

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.
-- David Longstreth

#Simple #Vocabulary #Esoteric

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

#Thinking #Intellectual #Esoteric

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.
-- Elliott Hundley

#Technique #Envelopes #Esoteric

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

#Collective Unconscious #Greek #Esoteric

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.
-- Casey Neistat

#Esoteric #Littles #Kind

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.
-- Elliott Hundley

#Technique #Envelopes #Esoteric