Mystery Quotes - Page 38

• These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Facts, Humans, Creator

  "'Mythologiques I: Le cru et le cuit' ('The Raw and the Cooked')". Book by Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1964.

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• No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Taste, Depth, Use

  "Sai Baba: Man of Miracles". Book by Howard Murphet, 1971.

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• Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.

  Henry Vaughan

  Angel, Men, Self

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.241

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• Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

  Henry Vaughan

  Lying, Dark, Men

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• That which concerns the mystery of the King's power is not lawful to be disputed; for that is to wade into the weakness of Princes, and to take away the mystical reverence that belongs unto them that sit in the throne of God.

  King James I

  Kings, Weakness, Thrones

  Speech in the Star Chamber, June 1616.

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• The strange and wonderful Book of Job treats of the same subject as we are discussing; its contents are a fiction, conceived for the purpose of explaining the different opinions which people hold on Divine Providence. ...This fiction, however, is in so far different from other fictions that it includes profound ideas and great mysteries, removes great doubts, and reveals the most important truths. I will discuss it as fully as possible; and I will also tell you the words of our Sages that suggested to me the explanation of this great poem.

  Maimonides

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.22, 1190.

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• Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Order, Law, Secret

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?

  Tom Lehrer

  Spiritual, Thinking, Worry

  Celebathiests.com Interview, June 1996.

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• Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because they see a table shake and do not know how it is shaken; because they hear a rapping on a board, and cannot see the instrument that raps it; because they are touched in the dark, and do not know the hand that touches them.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Rap, Dark

  Anthony Trollope (1995). “The New Zealander”

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• Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?

  Leslie Stephen

  Angel, Men, Laughing

  Sir Leslie Stephen (1903). “An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays”

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• The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, People, Age

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 4, 2004.

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• Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

  Edward Hirsch

  Poetry, Essentials, Needs

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• There is always a pleasure in unravelling a mystery, in catching at the gossamer clue which will guide to certainty.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Clue, Pleasure, Guides

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1045, BookCaps Study Guides

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• David Ray Griffin has done admirable and painstaking research in reviewing the mysteries surrounding the 9/11 attacks. It is the most persuasive argument I have seen for further investigation [into] that historic and troubling event.

  Howard Zinn

  Rays, Events, Done

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• We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Passion, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Guitar magazine, July 1999.

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• I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental.

  Warren Farrell

  Littles, Infinite, Conscious

  "Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen Their Connection with God". Book by Jonathan Robinson, 1994.

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• But that is the way of the place: down our many twisting corridors, one encounters story after story, some heroic, some villainous, some true, some false, some funny, some tragic, and all of them combining to form the mystical, undefinable entity we call the school. Not exactly the building, not exactly the faculty or the students or the alumni - more than all those things but also less, a paradox, an order, a mystery, a monster, an utter joy.

  Stephen L. Carter

  School, Order, Joy

  "The Emperor of Ocean Park". Book by Stephen L. Carter, April 1, 2002.

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• The mystery surrounding Garbo was as thick as a London fog.

  Greta Garbo

  Fog, London, Garbo

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• Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

  L. P. Jacks

  Mean, Light, Stronger

  "Near the Brink: Observations of a Nonagenarian". Book by Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, p. 17, 1952.

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• Maybe it's true what Thomas Moore said: “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

  Susannah Cahalan

  Soul, Madness, Said

  Susannah Cahalan (2012). “Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' 'Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Doors, Gold

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 8, 2002.

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• Love is for fools. It is a surging of blood in the loins ... there is no mystery, and no magic. Find someone else, my boy.

  David Gemmell

  Boys, Love Is, Blood

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 2, 1990.

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• Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Jobs, Real, Divorce

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Writing, Dark

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Certain

  "John C. Reilly Explains It All". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 06, 2014.

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