The mistake made by all previous systems of ethics has been the failure to recognize that life as such is the mysterious… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have.… — W. Clement Stone Copy Share Image
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Isn't it great when you're a kid and the world is full of anonymous things? Everything is bright and mysterious until you… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Moon is always there. A half blink of shadow, a crescent of an eyelash, opulent in fullness, spellbound in nothingness, and… — Carolyn Riker Copy Share Image
As no man can say who it was that first invented the use of clothes and houses against the inclemency of the… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
A large part of the reason I want to be so mysterious is so that I can move on and do something… — Paul Reubens Copy Share Image
We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
