Mystery Quotes
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.Mystery
Adams, Douglas
1952 British Science Fiction Writer
Mysteries are due to secrecy.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
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Brecht, Bertolt
1898-1956 German Dramatist Poet
There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.
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Bultmann, Rudolf
1884-1976 German Lutheran Theologian
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Carlyle, Thomas
1795-1881 Scottish Philosopher Author
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what s known as infinity.
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Cocteau, Jean
1889-1963 French Author Filmmaker
Mystery is not profoundness.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
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Colton, Charles Caleb
1780-1832 British Sportsman Writer
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms -- this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.
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Einstein, Albert
1879-1955 German-born American Physicist
How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Joubert, Joseph
1754-1824 French Moralist
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
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Masefield, John
1878-1967 British Poet and Novelist
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
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Rivarol, Antoine
1753-1801 French Journalist Epigrammatist
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist