Quotes About Mystery

The night walked down the sky with the moon in her hand.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Peitsin pää ta rinnale, sulesin silma, kuulasin — mida? — ei tea. Võib olla, iseenese, võib olla, tema, võib olla, kogu maailma südametukset.

Ich wurde ein immer besserer Verbrecher und du ein immer besserer Kriminalist.

Power is paradoxical.

Near andHard to grasp, the god.Yet where danger lies,Grows that which saves.

Near and hard to grasp Is the God. But where danger is Deliverance also grows

The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths—they haven't any.

One should never know too precisely whom one has married.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

Geometrically speaking, the Intellect is a ray rather than a circle, it emanates from God rather than reflecting Him. "Allah is known to Himself alone" say the Sufis; this saying, while it apparently excludes man from a direct and total knowledge, in reality enunciates the essential and mysterious divinity of pure Intellect; formulae of this kind are only fully understandable in the light of the often quoted hadith: "He who knows his soul knows his Lord.

We just need to feel we know, or we can't rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots

The very sense of wondering is God wondering.

Trying to understand the meaning of life in terms of the human brain's activities is like trying to understand the ocean by going to the shore and scooping out a bucket of water and analyzing it.

quoting Tacitus's epigram "Omne ignotum pro magnifico"—everything unknown is wonderful

Uma vez mortos, os segredos que tão cuidadosamente acalentámos, quais plantas carnívoras no meio de um jardim florido, ficam com frequência expostos à luz, onde têm oportunidade de se desenvolver. Cultivados pela verdade, fertilizados pelo rumor, florescem, mas as flores são tóxicas para quem quiser conhecê-las mais de perto e cheirar o seu perfume venenoso

I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Beyond the unacknowledged mental gate imprisoned deeply within the gloomy unknown of the ignorant mind lies your answer.

The only thing more alarming that what is in that cave will be your punishment if we somehow survive.

Why didn't Grandpa change you back?" Kendra asked. Grandma's eyebrows shot up. "Probably because I kept laying eggs for his breakfast.

rule is no peeking, I won't even consider it." "If we find a need for your special immunity, we'll make use of it," Grandpa promised. "If you find a need," Seth muttered. "I bet you won't be looking very hard. Say, Coulter, how did you know