Quotes About Enigma

There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.

In the same way that people stare up at the sky to see the moon every night, yet understand next to nothing about it.

all women are unknowable. They all have at least one secret that they are keeping from everybody else. A secret that changes everything you thought about them.

Jede Zeit ist eine Sphinx, die sich in den Abgrund stürzt, sobald man ihr Rätsel gelöst hat.

I never liked talking about myself or my background because I hated bringing back bad memories. And sometimes when I talked, it would come out the wrong way, and I'd look like a jerk. That's why I became an enigma to people.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

I've been fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don't care; they all fascinate me. I think that's a core human trait.

I believe that there are definitely creatures out there in this world that we haven't classified yet, and whether or not they can transcend dimensions is yet to be seen, but I... well, to put it simply, I want to believe in that kind of stuff.

I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.

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What is really baffling about life is that sometimes, despite all our confusion, we can also be really wise!

Any word or group of words that makes the reader ask "Why?" or "How?" also serves as an inducement for the reader to go on.

I want my life to be mystifying' she declared, although she didn't know what she meant

You know how I feel about Occam's Razor. The simplest answer isn't usually the right one. Devious and unlikely is everywhere.' 'You ought to launch your own theory: Occam's Beard, you could call it.

Here is my recommendation: wherever possible, treat anything you can as a mystery. Why? Because mysteries make life better. I love mysteries, including the desperately-craving-an-answer part, more than I love their solutions. Definite answers shut down possibilities, while an unsolved puzzle ignites our imagination and invites us to think, 'What if it turns out to be something shocking and unguessable that will well and truly blow my mind?'.

None of our sources explain what it was supposed to accomplish, but if it took its name from a key that was carried, then that key must have been of central importance - it must have been used to lock or unlock something significant." [lxxxix]

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Bints are the very devil to understand.

For only he who lives his life as a mystery is truly alive.

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Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

Truth is a remarkable thing. We cannot miss knowing some of it. But we cannot know it entirely.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.