Quotes About Mystery

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time .

The audience begins to applaud in spite of itself. It's as if they can't stop themselves from applauding, from agreeing with something that they don't quite understand, but that makes too much sense to ignore.

Ha muerto el Hijo de Dios: es absolutamente creíble, porque es absurdo; y también ha resucitado de la tumba: es cierto, porque es imposible.

It is to be believed because it is absurd.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man's wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

What about kids?" "Well, a child is like a third, smaller ball that appears as part of the big one. You've no way of knowing what color it will be.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.

Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.

What was it — I paused to think — what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered.

the thoughts of the Lord are not our thoughts, His ways are not our ways.

El otro día decía Celina: "¿Cómo puede estar Dios en una hostia tan pequeña?" Y la pequeña contesto: "Pues no es tan extraño, porque Dios es todopoderoso". "¿Y qué quiere decir todopoderoso?" "¡Pues que hace todo lo que quiere"...»

Does not the Wise Man tell us—"Life is like a ship that passeth through the waves: when it is gone by, the trace thereof cannot be found"?

I have often noticed that Jesus will not give me a store of provisions; He nourishes me with food that is entirely new from moment to moment, and I find it in my soul without knowing how it got there.

In order to erase his personal history the warrior must create around himself a fog in which nothing about him seems tangible. Only tangible people have personal history.

In the presence of death everything becomes power, and ordinary acts become imbued with magic.

What allowed a person sitting in front of this strange giant to call forth beautiful sounds just by moving his fingers up and down?

Say, He Whom God shall make manifest is indeed the Primal Veil of God. Above this Veil ye can find nothing other than God, while beneath it ye can discern all things emanating from God. He is the Unseen, the Inaccessible, the Most Exalted, the Best Beloved.

Quantum physics makes me so happy—it's like looking at the universe naked.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Forget the night. Live with us in forests of azure. Out here on the perimeter there are no stars, Out here we is stoned - immaculate.