exoteric

• All writing is necessitated to be exoteric, and written to a human should instead of to the terrible is. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
• These outdoor talks were called exoteric, and there gradually grew up esoteric lessons, which were for the rich or luxurious and the dainty. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
• Our public-school system is purely exoteric, only we stop too soon. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
• He set up a little community at the village of Harvard, which was rather less successful than Brook Farm, and he contributed Orphic Sayings to the Dial_, which were harder for the exoteric to understand than even Emerson's Brahma or the Over-soul Thither came, also, Sarah Margaret Fuller, the most intellectual woman of her time in America, an eager student of Greek and German literature and an ardent seeker after the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. —  Brief History of English and American Literature
• At eighteen years he knew all the sutra and the doctrines of Shaka (Sakyamuni), and books whether exoteric or esoteric. —  Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2

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