Alfred Rupert Hall quotes

Alfred Rupert Hall quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

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

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“Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.”
“There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.”
“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.”
“The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.”
“Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.”
“Abstraction is an esoteric language.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.”

Source : Lierre Keith (2009). “The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability”, p.152, PM Press

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