Quotes About Mystery

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

Das Ewig Weibliche zieht uns hinan.

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

It had all the elements needed for an industrial revolution centuries before it would occur in Europe. Yet, for one reason or another, China stumbled. Why did the world's dominant civilization falter on the verge of an even more glorious future? It is one of the greatest mysteries of history, and scholars will ponder the question for years to come.

All the lovely ladies in their finery tonight I wish that I could know them one by one

I'll tell you, but it's a whole book.

It is not known precisely where angels dwell — whether in the air, in the void, or in the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

The flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

An artist cannot talk about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

...the Man in the Zodiac has his clue in the man of flesh and blood.

...his gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet, — or seem likely to do it in this state of existence, — a few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

Cats are adorable violations of the laws of physics.

After all, cats are the only untamed pets that we have. You cannot tame a cat.

Debugging — the classic mystery game where you are the victim, the detective, and the murderer.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries to comprehend only a little of this mystery every day.

I teach you to know the wonder and the mystery of existence — not to analyse it but to enjoy it, not to make a theory out of it but to make a dance out of it. The whole existence is dancing, except men. They have become a big graveyard. I am calling you to come out of your graves.

When he died, Daddy went to the Wildlands for sure... He rode a tornado to get there.

Death has its own treasure map with different riches than Life.

My dreams leap — dancers of the night, reaching heights unknown to the day.

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn...

A lady, with whom I was riding in the forest, said to me, that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer has passed onward: a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.

A rustle in the wind reminds us a fairy is near.

Any man can lose his hat in a fairy-wind.