Enigmas Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.
— Honore de Balzac
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain…
— M.C. Escher
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Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant…
— Michael Kelleher
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There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
— Stanley Kubrick
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God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being,…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two.
— Thomas Browne
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't…
— M.C. Escher
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In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.'…
— Edward Hirsch
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A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of…
— Herbie Brennan
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
— Ellen Glasgow
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If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is…
— Antoine Wilson
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It is not science which leads to unbelief but rather ignorance. The ignorant man thinks he understands something provided that he sees it every day.…
— Jan Potocki
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If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
— Albert Camus
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Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric…
— Irving Howe
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When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the…
— James Joyce
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries…
— Marquis de Sade
Who Wrote These Enigmas Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Enigmas Quotes as follows: