Mysticism Quotes

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or… — Milan Kundera
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep. — Luigi Pirandello
Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great. — Andre Gide
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles. — John Donne
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share… — Joseph Conrad
Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it… — Ken Wilber
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;… — Bertrand Russell
The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear. — Ambrose Bierce
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to… — William Butler Yeats
To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so. — George Santayana
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit; divorced from it, they remain barren. — Bertrand Russell
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe. — W. Somerset Maugham
Every man contemplates an angel in his future self. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before… — Albert Einstein
Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
An angel is a spiritual being, created by god without a body, for the service of Christendom. — Martin Luther
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. — Thomas Carlyle

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