Quotes and Sayings About Mystery
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
-- A. C. Benson -
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.
-- Adam RiessSource : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.
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Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
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The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
-- Agnes MartinSource : Agnes Martin, Heinz Liesbrock, Josef-Albers-Museum (2004). “Agnes Martin: the islands”, Richter Verlag
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I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
-- Alan ArkinSource : Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 2, 2006.
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The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
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One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
-- Albert PikeSource : Albert Pike (1950). “Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
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What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
-- Aleatha Romig -
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
-- Alejandro JodorowskySource : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
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Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
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It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
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Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
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Mystery hovers over all things here below.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
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What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
-- Amedeo Modigliani -
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
-- Amy LowellSource : Amy Lowell (1969). “John Keats”, Shoe String Pr Inc
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The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
-- Anais Nin -
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
-- Anaximander -
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
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There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
-- Andy Rooney -
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
-- Andy Warhol -
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Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
-- Angela Lansbury