Quotes About Enigma

just a dark shape against an even darker background.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

Magic things are fond of deceptions.

Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

I asked Mr. Wrangle what you were like. He said you were hornet juice and rosebuds in a container of gazelle meat.

Only the obtuse are unappreciative of paradox.

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Besides, what kind of pilgrimage would it be if it didn't contain some element of hardship and enigma? The quest is essential to the ritual. To orient ourselves at the interface of the visible and invisible worlds - which may be the purpose of all pilgrimages - we must embrace the search as well as its goal. If our journey into the heart (or vagina) of meaning resembles in any appreciable manner our last trip to the shopping mall, we're probably doing something wrong.

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; in his two-fold security.

Wittgenstein once said: the mystery is, why does the universe exist at all?

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Cada época es una esfinge, que se precipita al abismo en cuanto se ha resuelto su enigma. Heinrich Heine

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

We explain the unattractive by pretending it is esoteric.

The deck appeared to be nothing more than a jumble of ropes and lines. The vessel was filled with objects that seemed to have no discernible purpose. Even the sailors appeared like aliens. They dressed their scarred, often disfigured bodies in strange clothing, ran around the deck barefoot, or scampered aloft like monkeys as they mouthed words that might as well have been Greek:

Nobody in Pixie Hollow has seen her.

Ah, men", I say. "A mystery" "Wrapped in sharp spikes," Seema continues. "And covered in chocolate," I finish Page 70

How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?' The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

You are a very dangerous woman, Serenity. (Morgan) Me? (Serenity) Aye. And the worst part is, you don't even know why. (Morgan)

Those who dare to speak to me directly call me Sin." She nodded. "Cyn? Short for Cynric?" "Nay," he said, recovering his stoicism as he remembered who and what he was. "S-I-N. As in conceived in, born in, and am currently living happily in." He felt her hand tremble for the first time. "You like to frighten people, don't you?" she asked. "Aye." "Why?" "Why not?" -Sin & Callie

Braden arched his brow as Maggie walked away. She was truly something else. What she was, he couldn't say in polite company, but never before had he met a woman quite like her.

When they'd first met in their twenties, he'd seemed like such a fascinating mystery. Unfortunately, it hadn't taken long to solve it.