Quotes About Mystery

Things keep their secrets.

The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.

It is better to conceal ignorance.

En aquello que los hombres toman por misterios sagrados se inician impíamente

He who does not expect will not find out the unexpected, for it is trackless and unexplored.

The limits of the soul you could not discover, though traversing every path.

Introite, nam et heic Dii sunt! (Enter, for here too are gods.)

I wish I could say I'd hit upon the answers to the great mysteries of life [Huncke said a few weeks before he died at age 81]. But it doesn't make any more sense to me than it did on day one.

Scientific information about the universe does not displace God. Some have said that they searched the heavens and did not see God. The universe with its measureless spaces remains a vast mystery to us, and those who do not find God in their immediate presence, in their heart and conscience, in the Word and the Christian community, will not find him in the universe either, even though they are equipped with the best telescopes that money can buy.

Man is an enigma whose solution can be found only in God.

From the start of its labors dogmatic theology is shrouded in mystery; it stands before God the incomprehensible One.

If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.

Ik kijk door de halfgeopende jaloezieën. Ik zie een schim rond het huis van de buren waren. De schim van de man die ik tevoren al eens gezien heb in de tuin van de buren. (...) Ik open m'n raam en ik roep, niet al te luid: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De schim verstijft. Ik blijf roepen: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De man is weggevlucht uit de tuin.

A smile is the chosen vehicle for all ambiguities.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

It is not down on any map; true places never are.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

Outside, in and about the snow and the dark, where fancies dangled and fear hung over the starched snow in rolling mists, something was coming to pass.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.

16] And after this: "…, o my mind. I love the word also." Poimandres said: "This is the mystery that has been kept hidden until this very day. When nature made love with the man, she bore a wonder most wondrous. In him he had the nature of the cosmic framework of the seven, who are made of fire and spirit, as I told you, and without delay nature at once gave birth to seven men, androgyne and exalted, whose natures were like those of the seven governors.

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

Was it true that Mr. Rask was omnipotently rich? Was he really still a bachelor? Why on earth? Did he ever go out? What were the tastes and pleasures of such a unique man?