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The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery of fact. — William James
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. — Thomas Carlyle
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where… — Tryon Edwards
It's a mystery of parenthood that your son can give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a stray, worm-riddled dog, share a piece of re-chewed gum from a… — Kathy Lette
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt… — Peter Straub
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. — Compton Mackenzie
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… — Lewis Thomas
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. — Madame de Stael
Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware… — Rajneesh
If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow… — Laozi
To become spiritual, you must die to self, and come alive in the Lord. Only then will the mysteries of God fall from your lips.… — Rumi
At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer;… — Rachel Naomi Remen
But, you know, when I choose a film I need to believe in it and believe I can do something special with it, and after… — Juliette Binoche
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain. — Rumi
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… — Lewis Thomas
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. — Thomas More
Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear. — Robert Baker Aitken
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. — Rumi
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery. — Daniel Dennett
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
Perhaps the best reason for regarding mathematics as an art is not so much that it affords an outlet for creative activity as that it… — Morris Kline
The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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