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Quotes About Mystery

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
~ Albert Schweitzer
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
~ Albert Schweitzer
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
~ Albert Schweitzer
It was just spooky . . . . The Bird-man, the War-man, those guys, and that day we tried to find out something. I don't know if we did, though. Maybe that was the point. Maybe it was something about what's personal. I don't know, but it's lasted a long time.
~ Alberto Alvaro Ríos
quem ama nunca sabe o que ama Nem sabe por que ama, nem o que é amar ... Amar é a eterna inocência, E a única inocência não pensar...
~ Alberto Caeiro
Si quieren que tenga un misticismo, está bien, lo tengo. Soy místico, mas solo con el cuerpo. Mi alma es pura y no piensa. Mi misticismo es no querer saber. Es vivir y no pensarlo
~ Alberto Caeiro
The Tejo runs down from Spain And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal. Everybody knows that. But not many people know the river of my village And where it comes from And where it's going. And so, because it belongs to less people, The river of my village is freer and greater.
~ Alberto Caeiro
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
~ Alberto Manguel
Se sentía completamente tranquilo, frío; si acaso, un poco triste; era una tristeza misteriosa que consideraba ya inseparable de su carácter.
~ Alberto Moravia
the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.
~ Alberto Moravia
En aquellos días descubrí por qué hay tantas solteronas resolviendo misterios: es lo más entretenido cuando no follas.
~ Alberto Olmos
After morning yoga a luminous being appeared to me in broad daylight. She walked out of the river, and I saw her
~ Alberto Villoldo
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
~ Albrecht Durer
the most fun lies in seeing and studying the unknown.
~ Aldo Leopold
I am well content that it should remain a mystery. What a dull world if we knew all about geese.
~ Aldo Leopold
There is a peculiar virtue in the music of elusive birds.
~ Aldo Leopold
What a dull world if we knew all about geese!
~ Aldo Leopold
Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
~ Aldous Huxley
I don't think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it's about maintaining a militia. It's about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation.
~ Alec Wilkinson
Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
~ Aleister Crowley
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
~ Aleister Crowley
A mi noche no la mata ningún sol.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Estoy ebria de soledad, de espera, de deseos abstractos, de entidades llenas de designios mágicos. ¡Qué noche para morir! ¡Qué instante para hacer el amor!
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Sensación de estar perdiendo mucha sangre por alguna herida que no ubico.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik