Quotes About Enigma

Who Dunnit?' profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.

The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.

The ego is only a bit of consciousness swimming upon the ocean of dark things. We are an enigma unto ourselves. —The Mentat Handbook

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Was it magic? Of course it was.

As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.

Skip Wiley was thirty-seven years old but he had the eyes of an old Gypsy.

Here comes the word for mystery. Here is the word for true.

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, why, there would be no end of divine beings.

Why does Alexander the Great never tell us about the exact location of his tomb, Fermat about his Last Theorem, John Wilkes Booth about the Lincoln assassination conspiracy, Hermann Göring about the Reichstag fire? Why don't Sophocles, Democritus, and Aristarchus dictate their lost books?

Kozmos'u ÅŸöyle bir düÅŸünmek bile garip bir heyecan verir. Ä°nsan?n sesini soluÄŸunu kesen, ensesinden aÅŸa?? ürperti veren, bir boÅŸluÄŸa düÅŸüÅŸün hayal meyal an?msan??? gibi baÅŸ döndürücü bir duygudur bu. Çünkü tüm s?rlar?n en büyüÄŸünün kar??s?nda olman?n bilincindeyizdir.

And the Sphinx broke its long silence: Don't expect too much.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told.

There's an enormous mystery hovering over our existence that's only unraveled beyond the grave.

The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

Abby_Donovan: C'mon…who are you really? Are you hiding a secret identity? Are you Batman? Ashton Kutcher?

Assassin, you are a mystery / To me, I say to my reflection sometimes

The fascinating is only a step away from the freakish.

Richard clenched the strip in his fist. "It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.

The chicken thing let out a whispering cackle.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close. And she held her sword, and she smiled like a knife.

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.