Quotes of Mysticism - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious. ”

- Ryszard Kapuscinski

“ Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ I searched through rebellion, drugs, diet, mysticism, religion, intellectualism and much more, only to find that truth is basically simple and feels good, clear and right. ”

- Chick Corea

“ Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. ”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“ All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory. ”

- Salvador Dali

“ I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. ”

- Peter Sellers

“ 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

“ All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. ”

- Louis Claude de St. Martin
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