Quotes About Enigma

We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.

I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

A necessary monster.

We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon's image that fits man's imagination, and this accounts for the dragon's appearance in different places and periods.

There is a labyrinth which is a straight line.

Scattered through the ordinary world, there are books and artifacts and perhaps people who are like doorways into impossible realms, of impossible and contradictory truth.

Don't go on multiplying the mysteries,' Unwin said. 'They should be kept simple. Bear in mind Poe's purloined letter, bear in mind Zangwill's locked room.' 'Or made complex,' replied Dunraven. 'Bear in mind the universe.

Gradualmente, el enigma concreto que me atareaba me inquietó menos que el enigma genérico de una sentencia escrita por un dios. ¿Qué tipo de sentencia (me pregunté) construirá una mente absoluta? Consideré que aun en los lenguajes humanos no hay proposición que no implique el universo entero…

Aquí también esa desconocida Y ansiosa y breve cosa que es la vida. (Here too the never understood, Anxious, and brief affair that is life.)

upa tras perfluyue lunó.

The indecipherable dust, once Shakespeare.

Não há uma só coisa no mundo que não seja misteriosa, mas esse mistério é mais evidente em determinadas coisas do que noutras. No mar, na cor amarela, nos olhos dos velhos e na música.

la tarea que emprendo es ilimitada y ha de acompañarme hasta el fin, no menos misteriosa que el universo y que yo, el aprendiz.

Nadie sabe de qué mañana el mármol es la llave.

The things of Scandinavia tend to be secret, as if they were a dream. The Last Voyage of Ulysses

The ultimate, unqualified mystery is beyond Human experience

What can't be known or named except in our feeble attempt to clothe it in language.

Schopenhauer sagely remarks in his paper on The Will in Nature, "we are sunk in the sea of riddles and inscrutables, knowing and understanding neither what is around us nor ourselves.

Most magic wasn't even magic. It just was.

What is it that demands an answer but never asks a question?

NOTPOHL Endtegt vohn PU PU had in gefuhnden

Shape? Does a fog have shape? Does the twilight? Does the onset of darkness?

Kalka the Mongols scored a great victory, but for some reason they withdrew, only to return with a larger force in 1237. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MONGOL EMPIRE In several respects, the Mongol empire, one of the greatest in world history, remains an enigma to historians. It is hard to explain how one million people succeeded in imposing their rule over one hundred million in a huge area stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Adriatic coast, from China to Hungary.