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occult
«I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.»
Author: Heinz R. Pagels
| About:
Books,
Science
| Keywords:
browse, browsed, browsing, commitment, occult, refresh, refreshes, refreshing
«Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenome»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Kepler, moon on, occult, philosophize, philosophized, philosophizes
«The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is ''what should be.'' Now, if you're taught to live up to a ''what should be'' that never existed -- only an occult superstition, no proof of this ''should be'' -- then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!»
Author: Lenny Bruce
(Comedian, Satirist)
| Keywords:
Adolf, Adolf Eichmann, Catholicism, Eichmann, existed, incorrect, indict, indicted, indicting, jury, live up to, occult, The First Stone
«There is something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive»
«ESOTERIC, adj. Very particularly abstruse and consummately occult. The ancient philosophies were of two kinds, --_exoteric_, those that the philosophers themselves could partly understand, and _esoteric_, those that nobody could understand. It is the latter that have most profoundly affected modern thought and found greatest acceptance in our time.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abstruse, esoteric, exoteric, modern philosophy, occult, profoundly
«DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
divination, dunce, dunces, nosing, occult
«Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquired, at the least, capital, commodities, eggs, lays, occult, offspring
