Hermetic Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
— Irving Howe
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If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question…
— Gerald Holton
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Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of…
— Carol Muske-Dukes
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Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the…
— Salvatore Quasimodo
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You can't kill America. We're more than a nation. We're a notion. We're an idea. The American Dream. You never heard of the Afghanistani Dream…
— Will Durst
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Dan Brown is a character from 'Foucault's Pendulum!' I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits.…
— Umberto Eco
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Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small…
— Paul Auster
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Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the…
— Brian Friel
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Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use…
— Brendan I. Koerner
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I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all…
— Sebastian Horsley
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Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.
— John Perry Barlow
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Divers of Hermetic Books have such involv'd Obscuritys that they may justly be compar'd to Riddles written in Cyphers. For after a Man has surmounted…
— Robert Boyle
Who Wrote These Hermetic Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Hermetic Quotes as follows: