Quotes About Enigma

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.

Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.

Dar, cum se întâmpl? adeseori cu oamenii, chiar cu cei mai misterio?i, ai deodat? sentimentul c? secretul e simplu: nu-?i lipse?te decât cheia pentru a dezlega combina?ia ?i pentru a-?i explica totul.

Novelists who carefully deliver their coups de théâtre , artfully hold back their dividends (how much? fifteen per cent?), who wait till the end of their book to unveil the enigma, have always seemed to me like shopkeepers anxious not to lose a penny on their wares. (spoken by He)

T'as parlé le berli du berlu à la corbelle du corbeau ?

Ayla, I looked for you all my life and didn't know I was looking. You are everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed of in a woman, and more. You are a fascinating enigma, a paradox. You are totally honest, open; you hide nothing: yet you are the most mysterious woman I've ever met.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

Gracias a él hice conocimiento con el Bonhomme Pluie, o paraguas errante, un enorme paraverse de algodón verde, que se paseaba completamente solo, sin que nadie lo sostuviese, por los terrenos áridos de Putney Commons. —Si por distracción o audacia se refugiase alguien debajo de él, desaparecería para siempre—afirmaba Peaffy.

Anla??lmaz bir homurtu olarak gördü?ü bu dünyada, sessiz ve akl? kar???k biri gibi görünmek ho?una gidiyordu.

Movies are like magic tricks.

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it was better to leave a mystery outside the door -- something they would expand in their minds, and fear.

Hey! I'm A Cherry Ghost!

Some things you can be so close to that you never grasp their true nature.

I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.

And I am trying my best, too. Even if we don't always know what that means or how it will play out. You can get caught up in something that's beyond you, and never understand why.

Sometimes you get a sense of when the truth of things will not be revealed by microscopes.

What strange creatures we are, I thought as I stood there. We live, we love, we die with such random joy and grief, excitement and boredom, each mind as individual as a fingerprint, and just as enigmatic. We make up stories to understand ourselves and tell ourselves that they are true, when in fact they only represent an individual impression of one individual fingerprint, no matter how universal we attempt to make them.

Imagine these expeditions, and then recognize that they all still exist in Area X in some form, even the ones that came

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For some reason, Area X was very hard on linguists, almost as hard as it was on priests.