Quotes About Mystery

Study is the child of silence and mystery.

We are hemmed round with mystery, and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see and do every day.

I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me -- and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my life passing. It seems to me that I have become a statue on the banks of the river of time, that I am the spectator of some mystery, and shall issue from it old, or no longer capable of age.

We see the clouds of summer go and come, And thirsty verdure praying them to give: We cry, "O Nature, tell us why we live!" She smiles with beauty, but her lips are dumb.

Life is the wave's deep whisper on the shore of a great sea beyond.

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Nature is a part of our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man.

Our civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars?

Nature is part our humanity, and without some awareness and experience of that divine mystery man ceases to be man. When the Pleiades and the wind in the grass are no longer a part of the human spirit, a part of very flesh and bone, man becomes, as it were, a kind of cosmic outlaw, having neither the completeness and integrity of the animal nor the birthright of a true humanity.

A world without wonder, and a way of mind without wonder, becomes a world without imagination, and without imagination man is a poor and stunted creature. Religion, poetry, and all the arts have their sources in this upwelling of wonder and surprise. Let us thank God that so much will forever remain out of reach, safe from our inquiry, inviolate forever from our touch.

sharpened and the house will have an odd little way of opening doors by itself and leaning to one side.

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

A missing lover, a severed hand, but a body never discovered… An heiress and a bloodied gown…

behind dim empires vaguer ghosts of empire loom.

Vereker's secret… the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

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do not understand, and perhaps never will. As the evolutionary biologist J. B. S. Haldane observed, it's not just that the universe might be stranger than we think, but that it might be stranger than we can think.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.