Endowment Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Human existence, or one's manifestation of it, is the greatest riddle of all. Many people will pursue this curiosity through insurmountable tragedies to get…

— Barbara Boyer

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

— Anonymous

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes,…

— Freeman Dyson

Man is a universe within himself.

— Bob Marley

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.

— Marcel Proust

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in…

— David Bohm

Man is manifestly not the measure of all things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of…

— Anonymous

The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence…

— Theodore Dreiser

Man is an intellectual animal, and therefore an everlasting contradiction to himself. His senses centre in himself, his ideas reach to the ends of…

— William Hazlitt

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a…

— Hermann Hesse

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

— Stephen King