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• Veiling truth in mystery.

  Virgil

  Truth, Philosophical

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• We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?

  Lord Byron

  Mistake, Inspiration, Believe

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2723, Delphi Classics

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• Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

  Ivars Peterson

  Islands, Ontology, May

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• Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Important, Matter, Clarity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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• No one can accuse Stuart Young of avoiding the big issues - with insight and verve, he tackles head on the existence of God, the mystery of human consciousness and the transformative effects of psychedelic drugs. Recommended.

  Mark Chadbourn

  Issues, Drug, Psychedelic

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• Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders, confounds, defies evil itself; it does so by making what has been unmade; it subverts the spirit of the age; it mends the heart by whispering mysteries the mind alone can’t fathom; it fulfills its highest calling when into all the clamor of Hell it tells the unbearable, beautiful, truth that Christ has died, Christ is risen, and Christ will come again. None of these songs and stories matter if the beauty they’re adding to isn’t the kind of beauty that redeems and reclaims.

  Andrew Peterson

  Beautiful, Song, Art

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• The universe is a great mystery.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Universe

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• Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Dark, Risk

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.367, Macmillan

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• We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates.  I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I have no qualms in asserting as fact: the dream is an experiential universal for humanity.

  Andrew D. Chumbley

  Dream, Humanity, Facts

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• Juanita Violini delivers a world most of us can't even begin to imagine. This is something quite beyond strange occurrences. Rather, Violini brings us a whole year's worth of unexplained mysteries with which to confuse our staid little hearts: a new one, each and every day. Be afraid. This one could change your life.

  Linda L. Richards

  Heart, Years, World

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• I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Self, Levels, Persons

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• This book is unique. I know of no other which so artfully tackles two of the greatest mysteries of modern science, quantum mechanics, and consciousness. It has long been suspected that these mysteries are somehow related: the authors’ treatment of this thorny and controversial issue is honest, wide-ranging, and immensely readable. The book contains some of the clearest expositions I have ever seen of the strange and paradoxical nature of the quantum world. Quantum Enigma is a pleasure to read, and I am sure it is destined to become a classic.

  George Greenstein

  Book, Unique, Two

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• A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.

  Zuzana Licko

  Imagination, Unleashing, Force

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• For Indians, images are a means of celebrating mystery and not a manner of explaining it

  Jamake Highwater

  Mean, Celebrate, Explaining

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• All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

  Laurie Lee

  Blood, Civilization, Panic

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• Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.

  Raghu Rai

  Information, Capture

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness

  Richard Wiseman

  Real, Mean, Long

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• Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

  John de Ruiter

  Honesty, Simple, Secret

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• Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

  Julia Cameron

  Heart, Creativity, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.248, Souvenir Press

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