Quotes About Enigma

Childe would almost certainly have been fascinated with Çatalhöyük because almost nothing about the place made sense.

Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

The author says the earliest Australian aborigines devoted extraordinary amounts of energy to enterprises no one now can understand.

puckerstoppled

Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.

Blaine L. Pardoe

Too much clarity darkens.

Everything that is incomprehensible does not cease to exist.

Miracle does not always signify miracle.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

this cryptic game of hide-and-seek is what makes it one of the greatest historical mysteries. So many of the symbols can be interpreted in so many different ways, there's always the possibility that all we're really looking at is a blank slate onto which anything can be read.

he referred to Project Blue Book as going from the investigation of the unexplained to the "explanation of the uninvestigated.

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

What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?

Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things

There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell.

Omne ignotum pro magnifico;

They were made by Miss Lucy!

As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.

It is strange that as yet I have not seen the Count eat or drink. He must be a very peculiar man!

When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail.

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all. They

Mi sono reso conto che la ricerca della Conoscenza ci ha incoraggiato a pensare alla Casa come se fosse una sorta di enigma da sciogliere, un testo da interpretare, e che se mai scoprissimo la Conoscenza, allora sarebbe come se alla Casa venisse strappato via il valore lasciando soltanto una semplice scenografia. (...) La Casa ha valore in sé perché è la Casa. È sufficiente già di per sé. Non è un mezzo per arrivare a un fine.

He had the odd idea that, though only a whisper, it could have passed through stone or iron or brass. It could have spoken to you from a thousand feet beneath the earth and you would have still heard it. It could have shattered precious stones and brought on madness.