Mysterious Quotes - Page 37

• I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

  Hilary Putnam

  Writing, Thinking, Mathematical Logic

  "What Philosophers Think" by Julian Baggini, Jeremy Stangroom, (p. 233), 2005.

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• The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kindness, Intelligent, Mysterious Things

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• Om is the mysterious cosmic energy that is the substratum of all the things and all the being of the entire universe. It is the eternal song of the Divine.

  Amit Ray

  Song, Energy, Divinity

  Amit Ray (2010). “OM Chanting and Meditation”, p.16, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• I'm against the idea that rock stars have to live a life that's completely understandable or predictable to their audience....Maybe I'll just be the mysterious figure that'll never be able to truly be defined. Maybe that's what my thing is.

  Debbie Harry

  Stars, Ideas, Rocks

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• What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

  Deepak Chopra

  Way, Consciousness, Paradigm

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• Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Sports, Art, Inspiration

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• Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Mystery, Should

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• Beautifully Bleak. I likened the hills encircling Canberra to the sea. They, like the sea, could be a sunny beguiling blue, or deep and inky. They could be distant and mysterious, or beautifully bleak as the wind tore across the plains from their snowy peaks. The hills were ever changing like the sea.

  Hazel Hawke

  Nature, Blue, Wind

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• Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.

  Ramona Koval

  Education, Book, Learning

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• A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Powerful, Secret

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• The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.

  John Main

  Christian, Reality, Giving

  John Main (2006). “Word Into Silence”, p.3, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Dark, Laughing

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• As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to us! This is a form of animism that we take for granted, but it is animism nonetheless - as mysterious as a talking stone.

  David Abram

  Animal, Talking, Rivers

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• People fall in love in mysterious ways. Maybe it's all part of a plan.

  Ed Sheeran

  Falling In Love, People, Way

  Song: Thinking Out Loud

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• Most of what you hear about entrepreneurshi p is all wrong. It's not magic; it's not mysterious; and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline and, like any discipline, it can be learned.

  Peter Drucker

  Discipline, Magic, Genes

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• Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

  Cornelia Funke

  Night, World, Loud

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• Acting is the least mysterious of all crafts. Whenever we want something from somebody or when we want to hide something or pretend, we're acting. Most people do it all day long.

  Marlon Brando

  Want Something, Long, People

  New York Times, July 2, 2004.

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• It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

  John E. Hines

  Light, Engagement, Facts

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• Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

  Aldous Huxley

  Music, Hymns, Swim

  Aldous Huxley (1970). “Letters of Aldous Huxley”

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• We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable.

  Carl Jung

  Mysterious Things, World, Unexpected

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• Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Men, Understanding

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• You must learn to understand the secret of gratitude. It is more than just so-called virtue. It is revealed to you as a mysterious law of existence. In obedience to it we have to fulfill our destiny.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Gratitude, Destiny, Law

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• I combined smoky grey shadows with ultra heavy black liner and piled on extra lashes for a mysterious and sultry look. To contrast with the gritty texture on the eyes, I kept the girls skin soft and pretty and gave their lips a natural flush.

  Gucci Westman

  Girl, Eye, Black

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• Unfortunately, religion often works to shrink and tame the very wild and mysterious forces that first drew our wonder. In the process of making the inexplicable safe for the masses, the possibilities for real illusion-piercing insight becomes reduced. One might say that they are only available to those who dare to ride the breaking crest of direct life-altering experience.

  Stephen K. Hayes

  Real, Piercings, Safe

  Stephen K. Hayes (1986). “Ninja Realms of Power: Spiritual Roots and Traditions of the Shadow Warrior”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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• No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.

  Michael Atiyah

  Squares, Roots, Understanding

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