Contrary Quote by William Butler Yeats

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship…

— William Butler Yeats

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

— Elie Wiesel

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the study of power, its use, and its abuse. At every moment you are getting stronger or you are growing weaker. At…

— Frederick Lenz

Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.

— Henri Nouwen

Mysticism cuts through bullshit, and it takes you right there to the experience. Everything in your life is eventually set up as a pragmatic…

— Frederick Lenz

“A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal…

— Anonymous

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

— Bertrand Russell

Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even…

— John Macarthur

“ 'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ”

— Wilhelm Reich

“I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no…

— Oscar Wilde

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational…

— Albert Schweitzer