Inspirational Quote by Fr. Augustine Baker

“But the purpose of philosophy is to rationalize mysticism: not by explaining it away, but by the introduction of novel verbal characterizations, rationally coordinated.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Mysticism is, in essence, little more than a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.

— Bertrand Russell

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

— Evelyn Underhill

“ 'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. ”

— Wilhelm Reich

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

— Elie Wiesel

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational…

— Albert Schweitzer

“I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no…

— Oscar Wilde

“All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice.”

— Karl Marx

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of…

— Florence Nightingale

In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the…

— Evelyn Underhill

Mysticism is the idea that direct knowledge of God or ultimate reality is achieved through personal, subjective intuition or experience apart from, or even…

— John Macarthur

“A mystic is anyone who has a gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradiction, and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal…

— Anonymous