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. - Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce: "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."

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Abstruse	Acceptance	Affected	Ancient
Consummately	Esoteric	Exoteric	Found
Greatest	Kinds	Latter	Modern
Most	Nobody	Occult	Particularly
Partly	Philosophers	Philosophies	Profoundly
Themselves	Thought	Time	Understand
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