Quotes About Hermetic

#1. 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 have you. Except by bearded hermetic recluses with a fetish for uneducated women dressed as giant shuttlecocks.

Will Durst

#2. I can be super reclusive and hermetic, and then I can be in California and host dinner parties and drink wine. It's all me.

Lia Ices

#3. Hermetic principle often associated with the Knights Templar: As above, so below.

James Rollins

#4. Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic.

John Perry Barlow

#5. 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 you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

Sebastian Horsley

#6. Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

Paul Auster

#7. I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.

Andrew Dominik

#8. They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

Toby Jones

#9. After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

Britta Phillips

#10. I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

Isabel Allende

#11. 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 tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it?

Brian Friel

#12. 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 Hermetic movement.

Salvatore Quasimodo

#13. I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

Michael Light

#14. Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Beckett

#15. Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

#16. Hermetic angelology, studied by Corbin in his Avicenna and the Visionary Recital, posits a middle reality between sensory perceptions and divine revelations.

Harold Bloom

#17. the hermetic philosophy of the harmony between man and nature contained in the phrase "As above, so below.

Christiane Northrup

#18. During the first century A.D., Alexandria was a veritable hotbed of mystical activity, a crucible in which Judaic, Mithraic, Zoroastrian, Pythagorean, Hermetic, and neo-Platonic doctrines suffused the air and combined with innumerable others.

Michael Baigent

#19. I didn't know how to define it
hermetic skepticism? liturgical cynicism?
this higher disbelief that led him to acknowledge the dignity of all the superstitions he scorned.

Umberto Eco

#20. I love films. If I'd known how to get into or do it from the word go, I would have done that.

Christopher Hampton

#21. The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should have the opportunity of advancing to the highest development of which he is capable.

Dion Fortune

#22. I don't paint nature. I am nature.

Jackson Pollock

#23. As Above, So Below

Hermetic

#24. Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. I pressed him gently on the matter, but he seemed a little reticent, which is maybe what you'd be wise to expect from a cryptologist who was also a practicing hermeticist.

Mark O'Connell

#26. I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more formal preparation. When I see something ten years later that I was in I think, 'Boy, would I love to do that over.'

Sam Elliott

#27. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

Aleister Crowley

#28. Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else

Immortal Technique

#29. The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.

Stuart Wilde

#30. To escape from the weight of the world, I leave my body where it is, in conversation or at dinner, and walk through a series of winding streets to a house standing back from the road.

Jeanette Winterson