Quotes About Enigma

Plotinus. He is without doubt the most important and influential thinker to appear between Aristotle and Saint Augustine. Yet we know almost nothing about him. His life is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. He declined to tell his disciples any details about his life. He even refused to have his portrait painted or a bust made of his likeness.

I have always been fond of diving into Queer Street for my amusement, and I found my knowledge of that locality and its inhabitants very useful. It

Arthur Machen

Lucian pigeon-holed the letter solemnly in the receptacle lettered "Barbarians.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

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

Every secret is a wrinkle.

J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.

I am hidden and I am not.

From castles of bone unknown music comes

his hands as if her were

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine - it is stranger than we can imagine.

Who are you?" "The devil," she said. "The devil in love.

Con rusos y con mujeres nunca se sabe.

En esa Praga, señor Corso, en gabinetes oscuros, hay hombres que conocen la carmina, el arte de las palabras mágicas; la necromancia, o arte de comunicarse con los muertos —hizo una pausa, conteniendo la respiración, antes de susurrar— y la goecia... —... El arte de comunicarse con el diablo.

Se considera insoluble este misterio por las mismas razones que deberían inducir a considerarlo solucionable. (E. A. Poe. Los crímenes de la calle Morgue)

También, por aquel entonces, empezó a extenderse desde La Rioja una lengua magnífica que hoy hablan quinientos y pico millones de personas en todo el mundo. Y que ese lugar, cuna del castellano, no esté hoy en Castilla es sólo uno de los muchos enigmas que la peculiar historia de España iba a depararnos en el futuro.

El mundo está empedrado con preguntas sin respuesta.

Al encuentro de alguien —respondió enigmático—. A buscar la piedra que el Gran Arquitecto rechazó, y que es la maestra del ángulo; la base de la obra filosófica.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

Another teen friendship, another tiny mysterious universe.

The enigma of history," thus we have styled him, though the title "Father of German unity," or again, "Father of grand strategy," would have been equally just--that is, if we can associate so homely a word as "father" with that cold unemotional mind, so utterly detached from the instincts and prejudices of normal humanity, soaring to a purely intellectual atmosphere too rarified for ordinary minds to breathe.

We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.