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Mysticism Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
- Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.
- The old religionist cried out for his god. The new religionist cries out for some god to be his.
- In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.
- The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
- 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…
- 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…
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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… — 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… — 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… — Joseph Conrad
- Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters… — Ken Wilber
- Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — 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… — 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… — George Santayana