Best Mystic Quotations
180 Mystic quotes by 138 unique authors
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The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.
— Evelyn Underhill
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The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Only heart to heart can speak the bliss of mystic knowers.
— Hafez
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
— Bruce Nauman
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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to…
— Albert Einstein
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Trinity!! Higher than any being, any divinity, any goodness! Guide of Christians in the wisdom of heaven! Lead us up beyond unknowing and light, up…
— Pope Dionysius
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Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator. A mystic craves obedience from men, not their agreement. He wants them to…
— Ayn Rand
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The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and…
— Julia Roberts
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I think working with Johnny Depp was very intimidating. It was my fault though. I mean he's a total cool nice, nice guy, but I…
— Franka Potente
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I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven the saints…
— Bertrand Russell
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Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination…
— Rumi
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The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world.
— Arthur Symons
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There is a famous formula, perhaps the most compact and famous of all formulas - developed by Euler from a discovery of de Moivre: e^(i…
— Edward Kasner
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These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet…
— Janet Morris
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There is still a popular fantasy, long since disproved by both psychoanalysis and science, and never believed by any poet or mystic, that it is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
— Virginia Woolf
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Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today…
— Murray Bookchin
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The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.
— Richard Rohr
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I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to…
— Kenzaburo Oe
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In wishing to know ourselves fully, we must forget our quest for gain and seek only completion. At a certain point in our development, we…
— T. Thorn Coyle
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Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who…
— Walter Russell Mead
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It is said that the Christian mystic Theresa of Avila found difficulty at first in reconciling the vastness of the life of the spirit with…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational…
— Umberto Eco
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The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet…
— Charlie Chaplin
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