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183 Mysticism quotes by 125 unique authors
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Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
— Anthony de Mello
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To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by…
— Evelyn Underhill
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In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms…
— Jack London
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Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy…
— Tom Robbins
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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
— Annie Dillard
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Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion…
— Carl Sagan
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Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.
— Meister Eckhart
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I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
— Rumi
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Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.
— Caroline Myss
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A mystic doesn’t say “I believe.” They say “I know.” A true mystic will ironically speak with that self-confidence but at the same time with…
— Richard Rohr
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Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.
— Meister Eckhart
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All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of…
— Karl Marx
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One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or…
— Robin Ince
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The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism.
— Ferdinand Marcos
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Where I grew up, there was a mysticism and creativity to everything. Everyone made things with their hands.
— Shea Hembrey
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