Writings of an exoteric nature. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
These outdoor talks were called exoteric, and there gradually grew up esoteric lessons, which were for the rich or luxurious and the dainty. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
A: There are both esoteric, and exoteric, tactics. From Wordnik.com. [Satanism Exposed: The ONA Fake Org | Disinformation] Reference
This view is the exoteric, and not the esoteric, one. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
This distinction between “esoteric” and “exoteric”. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
The inner or secret shrine: its esoteric and its exoteric office. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
Still less should exoteric religious statements be taken as literal fact. From Wordnik.com. [Sachchidananda] Reference
He also needs to learn the difference between “exoteric” and “esoteric”. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Institute on Science and Religion at the Jefferson Center - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Also, such exoteric things are exoteric – that is, forms to presence the acausal. From Wordnik.com. [Satanism Exposed: The ONA Fake Org | Disinformation] Reference
How is the spiritually oriented artist to reconcile esoteric and exoteric traditions?. From Wordnik.com. [Blake & Virtuality: An Exchange] Reference
How is this exoteric teaching consistent with the full and final revelation of divine truths?. From Wordnik.com. [Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius] Reference
This is a well-funded highly organized political movement with both exoteric and esoteric agendas. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism] Reference
He specialises in merging esoteric and exoteric techniques with modern day science and technology. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference
He was still sufficiently exoteric to think that a good stand-up fight in a good cause was a good thing. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Kûkai is adamant in using the above-discussed concepts to distinguish esoteric from exoteric Buddhism. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
What the Persian mystics allusion to "union with the Beloved" signifies; its exoteric and its esoteric meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
It is easy to point out the different modes of government, and we have already settled them in our exoteric discourses. From Wordnik.com. [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference
We are no longer the esoteric and the exoteric; we understand our rights in the common fund of sense and truth very well. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
For exoteric Buddhism, the absolute truth, i.e., the Dharma, transcends world and language, and thus cannot be explained. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
As is the case with all exoteric men, his political eyes saw a short way only, and his political aspirations were as limited. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
Strauss's thesis is that these writers hid in their exoteric teaching an esoteric teaching to be discerned by reading between the lines. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Forms of Medieval Philosophy] Reference
In his approach to philosophical texts, Strauss taught that there was the distinction between ‘esoteric’ and ‘exoteric’ readings. From Wordnik.com. [Grokster falls to the RIAA] Reference
We do not, however, object to an esoteric and exoteric view of the doctrine in question; and we quite agree with Feuerbach that the phrase. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Attention is now directed less to occasional and exoteric incidents, and more to conditions which inhere in the original economy of the brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862] Reference
Nevertheless, the pre-Shingon and exoteric teachings each have their rightful place within this scheme so that they are not utterly discounted. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
But his one long dream was the only thing for which he cared; and though in an exoteric sense this dream came true, its truth was but a mockery. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
JalÄl al-DÄ«n DawÄnÄ« (1427 CE), another philosopher of this tradition, wrote on the exoteric subjects like law as well as esoteric matters. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy] Reference
Moreover exoteric truths are limited by human language, which is inadequate to describe the state of enlightenment and the absoluteness of the Dharma. From Wordnik.com. [Laughter] Reference
Revolutionists, who attempt to maintain a distinction between their exoteric and their esoteric teachings, only succeed in making themselves ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
A new thought or a crisis of passion apprises him that all that he has yet learned and written is exoteric, — is not the fact, but some rumor of the fact. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
He had not quite liked the tone of that specially exoteric young monster-cub, who had clearly regarded him as a distinguished fogy from the army of martyrs. From Wordnik.com. [Framley Parsonage] Reference
The great monotheistic religions have not found it easy to reconcile their exoteric and esoteric sides. From Wordnik.com. [Commonweal Magazine] Reference
The battle within each of the three great monotheistic religions is between the exoteric and esoteric versions of each. From Wordnik.com. [Commonweal Magazine] Reference
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