MYSTERY QUOTES

quotations about mystery

Mystery quote

We injure mysteries, which are matters of faith by any attempt at explanation in order to make them matters of reason.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The principle that ultimate and intransigent mysteries are indefensible and unintelligible is a criterion for judging a philosophical viewpoint: does it dissipate mysteries or install them in rigid permanence.

STEPHEN DAVID ROSS

Philosophical Mysteries


The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

OSCAR WILDE

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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As soon as the mysterious is stood alongside the familiar details of the world and compared with this or that thing, we immediately lose it. To lock it into concepts, to circumscribe it with adjectives, is a wishful attempt to bring it into the range of calculation.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

The Faith to Doubt: Glimpses of Buddhist Uncertainty


Mystery is the magnet of inquiry.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

ELIZABETH GASKELL

Mary Barton


We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.

BABA HARI DASS

introduction, The Yellow Book


Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, camp chairs, foul breath, and excruciatingly dull jargon if not to avoid the echoes of what is not known.

NORMAN MAILER

Superman Comes to the Supermarket


The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Old Man's Advice to Youth", Life Magazine, May 2, 1955

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It is the nature of an enigma to remain unsolved.

WILLIAM GAY, Provinces of Night


The Mysteries are gateways, thresholds between this world and the Otherworld, the meeting place of gods and people.

CAITLIN & JOHN MATTHEWS

Walkers Between the Worlds: The Western Mysteries from Shaman to Magus


Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

RAY BRADBURY

When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed


Most mysteries are soluble in time.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

BRAM STOKER

Dracula


One may say "the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

ALBERT EINSTEIN

"Physics and Reality", 1936

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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

THOMAS MOORE

Care of the Soul


I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers.... The answer is never the answer.

KEN KESEY

"The Art of Fiction", The Paris Review, spring 1994

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All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.

ANAIS NIN

Under a Glass Bell


Our mysteries are lurking right around the corner. All we have to do is face them -- with resolve and, perhaps, goose pimples!

JOHN ROBERT COLOMBO

Mysteries of Ontario


The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

The World As I See It

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