Mysticism Quotes

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Individual, Mistake, Universal

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.
Salvador Dali

Money, Nothing, Less

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel

Knowledge, Mean, Philosophy

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

Serious, Tell, Endeavor

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel

Learned, Wait, Coffee

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Character, Appearance, Witty

The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism. These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
Otto Rank

Him, Soul, Creativity

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Religion, Society, Sex

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
Milan Kundera

Fear, Humility, Together

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.
Wilbur Smith

Read, Adventure, Books

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.
Henri Bergson

Religion, Science

As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
Carl Van Vechten

Love, Beauty, Power

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
Sri Chinmoy

Religion, Down, Poor

There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
Irvine Welsh

I love mysticism - it's such fun.
Jerry Hall

I like to say that I practice militant mysticism. I'm really absolutely sure of some things that I don't quite know.
Rob Bell

Sure, Quite, Practice

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.
Antoine Fuqua

Started, Studying, Mythology

I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.
Mary Garden

Done, Group, Though

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.
Dave Davies

Future, Spiritual, Thought

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
Alfred Rosenberg

Religion, Time, Great

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