Conjecture Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“What really lies beneath our feet at each moment is not a usefulness, but an inaccessible netherworld that we can use because it is…

— Graham Harman

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The…

— Cormac McCarthy

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another…

— Guy Davenport

“We all dream, and we all stand aghast at the mouth of the caves of our deaths; and this is our way in. into…

— John Updike

“There is more than just grandeur in this view of life, bleak and cold though it can seem from under the security blanket of…

— Richard Dawkins

And it is utterly true that he who cannot find wonder, mystery, awe, the sense of a new world and an undiscovered realm in…

— Arthur Machen

“Critics are much madder than poets... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea,…

— Chesterton, G.K

“The man journeyed far, and he heard and saw many strange things on his travels. He learned that - that the friend and the…

— Juliet Marillier

“And as no man knows the ubicity of his tumulus nor to what processes we shall thereby be ushered nor whether to Tophet or…

— James Joyce

In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets…

— Heinrich Harrer

“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?”

— Joseph Conrad

“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a…

— Robert Musil