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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 13 likes | |
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 10 likes | |
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 7 likes | |
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 6 likes | |
You always admire what you really don't understand. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 6 likes | |
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 6 likes | |
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes | |
The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 5 likes | |
Mystery is not profoundness. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 4 likes | |
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Every play is an investigation brought to a successful conclusion. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 4 likes | |
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes | |
Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes | |
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 3 likes | |
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes | |
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes | |
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 2 likes | |
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. | |
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. | |
A naked body is the only extension of the imaginary line that unites us with the unknown. | |
Infinity exists for us as the language for the deaf. | |
What would a God be without the cloud that protects and covers him? | |
Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it. | |
The mystery of man is that woman can love him. | |
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. | |
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. | |
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. | |
The mystery turns to dust if unskillful hands unroll the papyrus. | |
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. |
Latin Quotes
Everything unknown seems magnificent. Omne ignotum pro magnifico. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 83 likes |