Failure Quote by Ayn Rand

“A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal…

— Anonymous

“Mystics are not themselves. They do not exist in selves. They move as they are moved, talk as words come, see with sight that…

— Farid al-Din Attar (عطار

“You will not be a mystic until you are like the earth— both the righteous and the sinner tread upon it— and until you…

— Bayazid Bistami

“My belief is that, the mystics will never be happy nor sad because I took their side. Indeed, this is the right path that…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it. I’m a mystic, but only in my body, My soul is simple and…

— Alberto Caeiro

“two chief pitfalls into which the mystic is liable to fall--dreamy inactivity and Antinomianism.”

— William Ralph Inge

“All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a…

— John Shelby Spong

“For mysticism proper - as distinguished from philosophical theory or vague feeling or literary pleasure - is a practical thing, something more than a…

— Fr. Augustine Baker

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

— Elie Wiesel

The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

— Vida Dutton Scudder