Mystery Quotes - Page 40

• The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Brain, Doe, Answers

  "The Human Brain - Three Pounds of Mystery". "The Watchtower" Magazine, July 15, 1978.

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• Partake of this sacred mystery: to take the place of others, giving them his own.

  Shantideva

  Giving, Sacred

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• The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

  Marion Woodman

  Love, Sunset, Autumn

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

  P. L. Travers

  Creativity, Light, Creative

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• It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Sweet, People, Giving

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus: A Dual Language Edition”, p.223, Vintage

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• I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.

  Alan Arkin

  Thinking, Doe, Surprise

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 2, 2006.

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• Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Lying, Sea, Ships

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Beach, Men

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."

  James Berardinelli

  Delight, May, Able

  Review of "Van Helsing", reelviews.net, 2004.

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• Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.

  James Berardinelli

  Dedication, Blade Runner, Style

  Review of "Blade Runner", www.reelviews.net. 1982.

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• Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Sweet, Princess, Glasses

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2012). “The Sons of Osiris: A Side Degree: Magical Antiquarian, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• The evolution of the cosmos invokes in me a sense of mystery; the increase in biodiversity invokes the response of humility; and an understanding of the evolution of death offers me helpful ways to think about my own death.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Humility, Thinking, Understanding

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.20, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

  T. B. Joshua

  Opportunity, Destiny, Yesterday

  "Nigeria: The Shock of Reality". allafrica.com. August 24, 2009.

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• Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

  Philipp Otto Runge

  Art, Flower, Colour

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• If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reason to bow reverently at the idea of a Being who had no beginning, is well prepared to receive any communication of His will.

  Nehemiah Adams

  God, Communication, Ideas

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The day of death ... is one of the five mysteries, the key of which God holds in his own hands.

  Edouard Rene de Laboulaye

  Death, Keys, Hands

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• Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender.

  Glenda Green

  Heart, Love Is, Expectations

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• You believe God is not there, but He is, Hidden in the secret of the divine mystery

  Rumi

  Believe, Secret, Divine

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• Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

  William James

  Dog, May, Affection

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• Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.

  Anwar Sadat

  Land, Creation, Harbors

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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• The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

  Aldous Huxley

  Dream, Growing Up, Men

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• A dissection of music perception and creation that starts slowly and inexorably builds to a grand finish. I loved reading that listening to music coordinates more disparate parts of the brain than almost anything else--and playing music uses even more! Despite illuminating a lot of what goes on this book doesn't "spoil" enjoyment- it only deepens the beautiful mystery that is music.

  David Byrne

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

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• In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Air, Self, Perfect

  George H. Scithers, P. D Cacek, H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction”, p.143, Wildside Press LLC

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• Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.

  Freeman Dyson

  Exploration, Continuing, Collections

  "How We Know". Freeman Dyson's review of James Gleick's book "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood" (2011), www.nybooks.com. March 10, 2011.

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