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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
-Douglas Adams
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Mysteries are due to secrecy.
-Francis Bacon
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
-A. C. Benson
From a College Window
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What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
-Bertolt Brecht
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There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting.
-Rudolf Bultmann
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
-Elias Canetti
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.
-Karl von Clausewitz
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Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
-Jean Cocteau
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Mystery is not profoundness.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
-Charles Caleb Colton
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-Albert Einstein
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The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.
-Bede Jarrett
The House of Gold
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
-Joseph Joubert
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
-Ken Kesey
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Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
-Rene Magritte
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You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject-the actual enemy is the unknown.
-Thomas Mann
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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
-John Edward Masefield
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When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for us to stand on or we will be taught to fly.
-Patrick Overton
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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
-Antoine Rivarol
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
-Carl Sagan
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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
-Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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Books about Mystery
