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Quotes About Mystery

You must, in studying Nature, always consider both each single thing and the whole: nothing is inside and nothing is outside, for what is within is without. Make haste, then, to grasp this holy mystery which is public knowledge. Rejoice in the true illusion, in the serious game: no living thing is a unity, it is always manifold.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Geheimnisse sind noch keine Wunder.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jakie? maj? prawo Do mnie te gwiazdy na górze ?e si? na mnie gapi??
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Een engel! - Jaja, dat zegt iedereen over de zijne, is het niet? Maar ik ben nu eenmaal niet in staat je te vertellen hoe volmaakt ze is, waarom ze volmaakt is; laat het je genoeg zijn dat ze op al mijn gedachten beslag heeft gelegd.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Das Wahre, mit dem Göttlichen identisch, läßt sich niemals von uns direkt erkennen, wir schauen es nur im Abglanz, im Beispiel, Symbol, in einzelnen und verwandten Erscheinungen; wir werden es gewahr als unbegreifliches Leben und können dem Wunsch nicht entsagen, es dennoch zu begreifen.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For me to read a book is still And always will be quite a thrill. For me to read a book is like A boy when he rides his new two wheel bike. And when a bird comes north in spring It's natural for her to sing. I like to read books of poems and history Books of fiction and of mystery. And what is more, I'll read until I'm grown And then I'll write books of my own.
~ Johanna Hurwitz
Fancy finding you here," he said jauntily. Nothing about it was fanciful, and she suspected he might have followed her. Why else would he be there? "You've taken up knitting, have you?" she countered as she walked to the yarn section of the shop. "No,I've taken up finding you alone. Nice of you to accommodate me." His answer pleased her more than she could say, but she warned him, "I'm not alone." "For the moment you are.
~ Johanna Lindsey
What ball?" Selena gasped, truly surprised. He was not foxed, and he was not being blasé. The infuriating man really had no idea what she was talking about.
~ Johanna Lindsey
Many strange things happen in this world
~ Johanna Spyri
Of course, I am a heretic. The word hairesis in Greek means choice; a heretic is one who is able to choose. Its root stems from the Greek word hairein, to take. Faced with the mystery of life and death, each act of faith is a gamble. We all risk choices before the unknown. -Forrest Church
~ John A. Buehrens
A new awakening, it consecrates your life with sacraments of pain you do not understand and promised joy you will never fully call your own. Such awakenings may happen only once in a lifetime, or many times. But when they do, what you took for granted before is presented as a gift: difficult, yet precious and good. Not that you know what to do with your gift, or even what it really means, only how much it matters.
~ John A. Buehrens
They are not from outer space. There is no need for them to be. They have always been here.
~ John A. Keel
Hell was a translation of sheol, which meant "invisible world" or "the land of the dead.
~ John A. Keel
If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy. God may be a crackpot.
~ John A. Keel
If you could look far enough into the empty sky, you would be able to see the back of your own head.
~ John A. Keel
And as Daniel Webster put it, "There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
~ John A. Keel
We are dealing with three types of phenomena in these cases. The first is the winged man; the second is a giant bird, so huge it is a biological impossibility; third, we have a monstrous demon with red eyes, bat's wings, and a body closely human in form. All three are probably interrelated.
~ John A. Keel
in the heart of the city? Mr. Gordon Creighton
~ John A. Keel
England's Flying Saucer Review
~ John A. Keel
Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.
~ John Allison
Yes, there is happiness to be found in the mere contemplation of the deepest mysteries.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Death is complicated." -Johann Kraus
~ John Arcudi