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Mystery |
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 | The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 15 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 11 likes |
 | The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 8 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 7 likes |
 | You always admire what you really don't understand. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 7 likes |
 | The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 7 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 6 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 6 likes |
 | Mystery is not profoundness. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 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 5 likes |
 | The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 4 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 4 likes |
 | Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 4 likes |
 | The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 4 likes |
 | The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
| Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 3 likes |
 | Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 1 likes |
 | A naked body is the only extension of the imaginary line that unites us with the unknown. — Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979 1 likes |
| Infinity exists for us as the language for the deaf. — Odysseas Elytis, 1911-1996, Greek poet, Nobel 1979 1 likes |
 | What would a God be without the cloud that protects and covers him? — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 1 likes |
 | 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. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | The mystery of man is that woman can love him. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 1 likes |
 | I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 1 likes |
 | 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. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Love is an eternal mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. — Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913 1 likes |
 | The mystery turns to dust if unskillful hands unroll the papyrus. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
| So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 1 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Everything unknown seems magnificent. Omne ignotum pro magnifico. — Tacitus, 55-120 AD, Roman historian 90 likes |
