“It is useless to seek the soul of things beneath their surface, for their surface is their soul.”
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Peace Pilgrim (1908–1981) American non-denominational spiritual teacher
Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (1982), Ch. 2 : My Spiritual Growing Up : My Steps Toward Inner Peace
“I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.”
Stephen Sondheim (1930) American composer and lyricist
John Zerzan (1943) American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author
Elements of Refusal (1988)
“Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
VI, 3
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VI
Geoffrey Hodson (1886–1983) New Zealand occultist
The Hidden Wisdom In The Holy Bible (1963), Volume III
