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title="Secrets">Secrets</a><b></b></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mystery&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Metatrons_cube.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Metatrons_cube.svg/220px-Metatrons_cube.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Metatrons_cube.svg/330px-Metatrons_cube.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Metatrons_cube.svg/440px-Metatrons_cube.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="435" data-file-height="482" /></a><figcaption>I want to <a href="/wiki/Hear" class="mw-redirect" title="Hear">hear</a> you <a href="/wiki/Laughter" title="Laughter">laugh</a>. <br /> Don't let the mystery go <a href="/wiki/Now" title="Now">now</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif/220px-Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif" decoding="async" width="220" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif/330px-Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif/440px-Churchill-in-quebec-1944-23-0201a.gif 2x" data-file-width="462" data-file-height="583" /></a><figcaption>A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. ~ <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hoag%27s_object.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/220px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/330px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Hoag%27s_object.jpg/440px-Hoag%27s_object.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1521" data-file-height="1489" /></a><figcaption>The most <a href="/wiki/Beautiful" class="mw-redirect" title="Beautiful">beautiful</a> thing we can <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> is the mysterious. It is the source of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/True" class="mw-redirect" title="True">true</a> <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>. ~ <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Furthur_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Furthur_02.jpg/220px-Furthur_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Furthur_02.jpg/330px-Furthur_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Furthur_02.jpg/440px-Furthur_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3528" data-file-height="2341" /></a><figcaption>I've never seen anybody really find the <a href="/wiki/Answer" title="Answer">answer</a>, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. ~ <a href="/wiki/Ken_Kesey" title="Ken Kesey">Ken Kesey</a> </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg/220px-The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg/330px-The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg/440px-The_Sphinx_and_Pyramid_of_Khafre.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2900" data-file-height="2195" /></a><figcaption>Homage to you, O ye divine Lords of things, ye holy beings, whose seats are veiled! Homage to you, O ye Lords of Eternity, whose forms are concealed, whose sanctuaries are mysteries, whose places of abode are not known! ~ <a href="/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead" title="Book of the Dead">Book of the Dead</a></figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Man has always been afraid of anything mysterious, forgetting that the key to the mystery is within himself. One must free oneself from all impeding conditions or circumstances, which are different for everyone. Progress depends upon free will that is directed toward good. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Agni_Yoga" title="Agni Yoga">Agni Yoga</a>, <i>Supermundane I</i>, (1938)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine</a> discussed the <a href="/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity">Trinity</a> by means of an <a href="/wiki/Analogy" title="Analogy">analogy</a> with the three fundamental phases of <a href="/wiki/Personality" title="Personality">personality</a>—knowing, willing, and feeling—although ultimately he believed it to be a mystery beyond human comprehension. <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> is the perfection of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">knowledge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Power" title="Power">power</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Benevolence" title="Benevolence">good will</a>. His attributes are <a href="/wiki/Omniscience" title="Omniscience">omniscience</a>, <a href="/wiki/Omnipotence" title="Omnipotence">omnipotence</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/omnibenevolence" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:omnibenevolence">supreme kindliness</a>. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Edwin_Avey" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Albert Edwin Avey">Albert Edwin Avey</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i>Handbook in the History of Philosophy</i>. New York: Barnes & Noble. 1954. p. 70.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Handbook+in+the+History+of+Philosophy&rft.date=1954&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B70&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Barnes+%26+Noble&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Mystery"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is <a href="/wiki/Happiness" title="Happiness">happiness</a>, because it is its own justification.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges" title="Jorge Luis Borges">Jorge Luis Borges</a>, "Unworthy", <i>In Praise of Darkness</i> (1969), tr. Andrew Hurley, <i>Collected Fictions</i> (1998).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Mysteries abound where most we seek for <a href="/wiki/Answers" class="mw-redirect" title="Answers">answers</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Bradbury" title="Ray Bradbury">Ray Bradbury</a>, in "All flesh is one: what matter scores?" in <i>When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed : Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year</i> (1975).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i>I want to <a href="/wiki/Hear" class="mw-redirect" title="Hear">hear</a> you <a href="/wiki/Laughter" title="Laughter">laugh</a>. <br /> Don't let the mystery go now.</i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Bush" title="Kate Bush">Kate Bush</a> in "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_Will_Be_Magic_Again" class="extiw" title="w:December Will Be Magic Again">December Will Be Magic Again</a>".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>I cannot forecast to you the action of <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a>. <b>It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a <a href="/wiki/Key" title="Key">key</a>.</b> That <a href="/wiki/Key" title="Key">key</a> is Russian national interest.” <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, BBC radio address “The Russian Enigma” (1 October 1939) - (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/RusnEnig.html">partial text</a>).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It seems to me there is so much more to the <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe if you look hard, there are more <a href="/wiki/Wonders" title="Wonders">wonders</a> in this <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a> than you could ever have <a href="/wiki/Dreamed" class="mw-redirect" title="Dreamed">dreamed</a> of. It's colour! Colour that holds the <a href="/wiki/Key" title="Key">key</a>! I can hear the colours, <a href="/wiki/Listen" class="mw-redirect" title="Listen">listen</a> to them. Every time I step outside, I <a href="/wiki/Feel" class="mw-redirect" title="Feel">feel</a> <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> is shouting at me. Come on! Come and get me! Come on! Capture my mystery! <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Curtis" title="Richard Curtis">Richard Curtis</a>, writer of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_and_the_Doctor" class="extiw" title="w:Vincent and the Doctor">Vincent and the Doctor</a>", portraying <a href="/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh">Vincent van Gogh</a> conversing with the <a href="/wiki/Eleventh_Doctor#Vincent_and_the_Doctor_.5B5.10.5D" title="Eleventh Doctor">eleventh incarnation of the Doctor</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Doctor_Who" title="Doctor Who">Doctor Who</a></i> television series.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Everybody is wonderin' what and where they all came from.<br />Everybody is worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.<br />But no one knows for certain 'n' so it's all the same to me.<br />I think I'll just let the mystery be. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iris_DeMent" title="Iris DeMent">Iris DeMent</a>, "Let the Mystery Be", track 1 on her debut studio album <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous_Angel" class="extiw" title="w:Infamous Angel">Infamous Angel</a></i> (1992)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The most <a href="/wiki/Beauty" title="Beauty">beautiful</a> thing we can <a href="/wiki/Experience" title="Experience">experience</a> is the mysterious. It is the source of all true <a href="/wiki/Art" title="Art">art</a> and <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a>.</b> He to whom this <a href="/wiki/Emotion" class="mw-redirect" title="Emotion">emotion</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Stranger" class="mw-redirect" title="Stranger">stranger</a>, who can no longer pause to <a href="/wiki/Wonder" title="Wonder">wonder</a> and stand rapt in awe, is as good as <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>: his <a href="/wiki/Eyes" title="Eyes">eyes</a> are closed. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> in <i>Mein Weltbild</i> (1931), as quoted in <i>Introduction to Philosophy</i> (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein" title="Albert Einstein">Albert Einstein</a> in <i>Mein Weltbild</i> (1931), as quoted in <i>Introduction to Philosophy</i> (1935) by George Thomas White Patrick and Frank Miller Chapman, p. 44.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There are some mysteries so big that they will take the whole <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a> to solve them. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Helm" title="Rebecca Helm">Rebecca Helm</a>, in a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1120733232633470979">Twitter post</a>, quoted in <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fodors.com/news/outdoors/you-can-help-solve-one-of-the-mysteries-of-the-ocean">You Can Help Solve One of the Mysteries of the Ocean</a></i> (April 24, 2019) by Chantel Delulio, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fodor%27s" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Fodor's">Fodor's</a></i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">Reason</a> quite properly rejects contradiction, but <a href="/wiki/Rationalism" title="Rationalism">rationalism</a> abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Horton" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Horton">Michael Horton</a>, <i>Pilgrim Theology</i> (14 January 2013), p. 177</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Angels" title="Angels">angel</a> which I saw stand upon the <a href="/wiki/Sea" title="Sea">sea</a> and upon the <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">earth</a> lifted up his <a href="/wiki/Hand" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand">hand</a> to <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a>, and sware by <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">him that liveth</a> <a href="/wiki/Eternity" title="Eternity">for ever and ever</a>, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be <a href="/wiki/Time" title="Time">time</a> no longer: but in the <a href="/wiki/Days" class="mw-redirect" title="Days">days</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Voice" title="Voice">voice</a> of the seventh <a href="/wiki/Angel" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel">angel</a>, when he shall begin to <a href="/wiki/Sound" title="Sound">sound</a>, the mystery of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the <a href="/wiki/Prophets" class="mw-redirect" title="Prophets">prophets</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Patmos" class="extiw" title="w:John of Patmos">John of Patmos</a>, <i>Revelation</i> 10:5-7 (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version_of_the_Bible" class="extiw" title="w:King James Version of the Bible">KJV</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the answer.</b> What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. <b>So they stop <a href="/wiki/Thinking" class="mw-redirect" title="Thinking">thinking</a>.</b> But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a <a href="/wiki/Garden" class="mw-redirect" title="Garden">garden</a> in which <a href="/wiki/Strange" class="mw-redirect" title="Strange">strange</a> plants grow and mysteries bloom. <b>The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Kesey" title="Ken Kesey">Ken Kesey</a> in "The Art of Fiction" - interview by Robert Faggen, <i>The Paris Review</i> No. 130 (Spring 1994), p. 92.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We met in secret : mystery is to love<br />Like perfume to the flower ; the maiden's blush<br />Looks loveliest when her cheek is pale with fear. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Letitia_Elizabeth_Landon" title="Letitia Elizabeth Landon">Letitia Elizabeth Landon</a>, <i>The London Literary Gazette</i> (18th May 1822), <i>Poetic Sketches</i>. Second Series - Sketch the Third <i>Rosalie</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.<br /> Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations.<br /> These two spring from the same source but differ in <a href="/wiki/Name" class="mw-redirect" title="Name">name</a>;<br /> this appears as <a href="/wiki/Darkness" title="Darkness">darkness</a>.<br /> Darkness within darkness.<br /> The gate to <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> mystery. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a> in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" class="extiw" title="w:Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i>, Ch.1, as translated by Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English (1972).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tao" title="Tao">Tao</a> can be talked about, but not the <a href="/wiki/Eternal" class="mw-redirect" title="Eternal">Eternal</a> Tao. <br /> Names can be named, but not the Eternal Name. <br /> As the origin of heaven-and-earth, it is nameless: <br /> As "the Mother" of all things, it is nameable. <br /> So, as ever hidden, we should look at its inner aspects. <br /> As always manifest, we should look at its outer aspects. <br /> These two flow from the same source, <br /> though differently named; <br /> And both are called mysteries. <br /> The Mystery of mysteries is the <a href="/wiki/Door" title="Door">Door</a> of <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a> <a href="/wiki/Essence" title="Essence">essence</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a> in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" class="extiw" title="w:Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i>, Ch.1, as translated by John C. H. Wu (1990).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Free from desire, you realize the mystery.<br /> Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.</b><br /> Yet mystery and manifestations<br /> arise from the same source.<br /> This source is called darkness.<br /> Darkness within darkness.<br /> The gateway to all <a href="/wiki/Understanding" title="Understanding">understanding</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a> in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" class="extiw" title="w:Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i>, Ch.1, as interpreted by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Mitchell" class="extiw" title="w:Stephen Mitchell">Stephen Mitchell</a> (1992).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Freed from desire, you can see the hidden mystery. <br /> By having desire, you can only see what is visibly real. <br /> Yet mystery and reality <br /> emerge from the same source. <br /> This source is called darkness. <br /> Darkness born from darkness. <br /> The beginning of all understanding. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a> in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" class="extiw" title="w:Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i>, Ch.1, as trans. by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wam.umd.edu/~stwright/rel/tao/TaoTeChing.html">J.H.McDonald (1996)</a> [Public domain translation]</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The unwanting <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a><br /> sees what's hidden,<br /> and the ever-wanting soul<br /> sees only what it wants.<br /> Two things, one origin,<br /> but different in name,<br /> whose identity is mystery.<br /> Mystery of all mysteries!<br /> The door to the hidden. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Laozi" title="Laozi">Laozi</a> in the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_Te_Ching" class="extiw" title="w:Tao Te Ching">Tao Te Ching</a></i>, Ch.1, as interpreted by <a href="/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> (1998).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Mysteries are irritated by facts.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/">Superman Comes to the Supermarket</a></i>. (November 1960)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Mystery is an emotion which is repugnant to a political animal.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/">Superman Comes to the Supermarket</a></i>. (November 1960)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Why else lead a life of bad banquet dinners, cigar smoke, camp chairs, foul breath, and excruciatingly dull jargon if not to avoid the echoes of what is not known. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Mailer" title="Norman Mailer">Norman Mailer</a>, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3858/superman-supermarket/">Superman Comes to the Supermarket</a></i>. (November 1960)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Sex and death have in common the fact that they are the two biological aspects of the <i>mysterium tremendum</i>. <b>Mystery—defined here as a situation in which the data impinge on the problem</b>—has its ultimate meaning in these two human experiences. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rollo_May" title="Rollo May">Rollo May</a>, <i>Love and Will</i> (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1969), Ch. 4: "Love and Death", Death and the Obsession with Sex (last paragraph)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Some things must needs gain in mystery before we can at all undertake to think upon them. Without mystery they are all obscure. Who can think, for instance, of the <a href="/wiki/Infinity" title="Infinity">infinity</a> of <a href="/wiki/Space" title="Space">space</a> without adding inconceivable things to his meditation? <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Meynell" title="Alice Meynell">Alice Meynell</a>, "A Hundred Years Ago", in <i>The Second Person Singular and Other Essays</i> (Oxford University Press, 1921), p. 69</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Mumford" title="Lewis Mumford">Lewis Mumford</a>, <i>The Conduct of Life</i> (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1951), p. 57</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A mystery is only a mystery for a time, for it relies upon a sense of wonder and curiosity to maintain its air, and that needs energy. If it is not revealed before the energy runs out, then the mystery becomes a conundrum, a problem, an annoyance, and a pestilence. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_Lynn_Nye" class="extiw" title="w:Jody Lynn Nye">Jody Lynn Nye</a>, <i>The Dreams of the Sea</i> (2013), in J. E. Mooney and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Fawcett" class="extiw" title="w:Bill Fawcett">Bill Fawcett</a> (eds.), <i>Shadows of the New Sun</i> (p. 305)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Tao" title="Tao">Tao</a> <a href="/wiki/Mystics" class="mw-redirect" title="Mystics">mystics</a> never talk about <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reincarnation" title="Reincarnation">reincarnation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Heaven" title="Heaven">heaven</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hell" title="Hell">hell</a>. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the mystery.</b> In fact, all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, <b>explanation is not needed – only exclamation, a wondering <a href="/wiki/Heart" title="Heart">heart</a>, awakened, surprised, <a href="/wiki/Feeling" class="mw-redirect" title="Feeling">feeling</a> the mystery of life each <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a>. Then, and only then, you know what <a href="/wiki/Truth" title="Truth">truth</a> is. And truth <a href="/wiki/Liberates" class="mw-redirect" title="Liberates">liberates</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Osho_(Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh)" class="mw-redirect" title="Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)">Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)</a>, <i>Never Born, Never Died</i> (2002).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Homage to you, O ye divine Lords of things, ye holy beings, whose seats are veiled! Homage to you, O ye Lords of Eternity, whose forms are concealed, whose sanctuaries are mysteries, whose places of abode are not known!</b> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Papyrus_of_Ani" class="extiw" title="wikisource:Papyrus of Ani">Papyrus of Ani</a></i> (c. 1250 BCE), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Book of the Dead">Book of the Dead</a></i>, translated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Alfred_Wallis_Budge" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge">Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>It is not in the <a href="/wiki/Books" title="Books">books</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophers">Philosophers</a>, but in the <a href="/wiki/Religious" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious">religious</a> <a href="/wiki/Symbolism" class="mw-disambig" title="Symbolism">symbolism</a> of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">Science</a>, and re-discover the <a href="/wiki/Mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Mysteries">Mysteries</a> of <a href="/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge">Knowledge</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Pike" title="Albert Pike">Albert Pike</a>, <i>Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry</i> (1871), Ch. XXXII : Sublime Princ.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><i><b>Ride, captain ride, upon your mystery <a href="/wiki/Ship" class="mw-redirect" title="Ship">ship</a>, <br /> Be amazed, at the <a href="/wiki/Friends" class="mw-redirect" title="Friends">friends</a>, you have here on your trip.</b> <br /> Ride, captain ride, upon your mystery ship, <br /> On your way, to a <a href="/wiki/World" title="World">world</a>, that others might have missed.</i> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Mike Pinera">Mike Pinera</a> and Frank "Skip" Konte, of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_Image" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Blues Image">Blues Image</a>, in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ride_Captain_Ride" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ride Captain Ride">Ride Captain Ride</a> (1970).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Can you think of any <a href="/wiki/Reason" title="Reason">reason</a> why someone would kill him?"<br />The troll scratched his head. "Well, 'cos dey wanted him <a href="/wiki/Dead" class="mw-redirect" title="Dead">dead</a>, I reckon. Dat's a good reason." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pratchett" title="Terry Pratchett">Terry Pratchett</a>, <i>The Fifth Elephant</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"Luke, this reminds me of a puzzle" <ul><li><i>The Professor Layton Series</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>"A true gentleman leaves no puzzle unsolved" <ul><li><i>Professor Layton and the Curious Village</i> (2007)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon <a href="/wiki/Ignorance" title="Ignorance">ignorance</a>.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a>, <i>The Analysis of Mind</i> (1921), Lecture I: Recent Criticisms of "Consciousness".</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Just as nature abhors a vacuum, our minds abhor a mystery." <ul><li>Irena Sertôrian in <i>The Infinite Future</i> by Eduard Salgado-MacKenzie</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>A prohibition and a mystery are the same—a locked room whose inscrutable door beckons us closer. Human curiosity impels us to open it, and the enlightenment we find inside—if it's truly worth our while—will invariably devastate us. <ul><li>Irena Sertôrian in <i>The Infinite Future</i> by Eduard Salgado-MacKenzie</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>But the divine mystery is inherent in the divine, a part of the nature of God, and can never disappear. And this means that it is still a mystery even to the mystic who has directly experienced it, nay, even to God Himself. That is why it is ineffable. The mystery and the ineffability of God are one and the same thing. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Terence_Stace" title="Walter Terence Stace">Walter Terence Stace</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_and_Eternity_(philosophy_book)" class="extiw" title="w:Time and Eternity (philosophy book)">Time and Eternity</a></i> (1952) p. 37</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Between the mysteries of death and life<br />Thou standest, loving, guiding,— not explaining;<br />We ask, and Thou art silent,— yet we gaze,<br />And our charmed hearts forget their drear complaining;<br />No crushing <a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">fate</a>, no stony <a href="/wiki/Destiny" title="Destiny">destiny</a>!<br />Thou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Beecher_Stowe" title="Harriet Beecher Stowe">Harriet Beecher Stowe</a>, "Life's Mystery", reported in Charlotte Fiske Rogé, <i>The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song</i> (1832), p. 544.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>微乎微乎，至於無形；神乎神乎，至於無聲；故能為敵之司命。 <ul><li><b>Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely <a class="mw-selflink selflink">mysterious</a>, even to the point of soundlessness.</b> Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's <a href="/wiki/Fate" title="Fate">fate</a>.</li> <li><i>Alternative translation</i>: <b>Subtle and insubstantial, the expert leaves no trace; divinely mysterious, he is inaudible. Thus he is master of his enemy's fate.'</b><i></i></li> <li><i>Alternative translation</i>: O divine art of subtlety and <a href="/wiki/Secrecy" title="Secrecy">secrecy</a>! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sun_Tzu" title="Sun Tzu">Sun Tzu</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Art of War">The Art of War</a></i>, Chapter VI · Weaknesses and Strengths, Chapter titles from Chow-Hou Wee (2003)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wei_Wu_Wei" title="Wei Wu Wei">Wei Wu Wei</a>, <i>All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living</i> (1964)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Today for real mystery one has to look to <a href="/wiki/Cosmology" title="Cosmology">cosmology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Particle_physics" title="Particle physics">elementary particle physics</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Weinberg" title="Steven Weinberg">Steven Weinberg</a>, <cite style="font-style:normal" class="book"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Dreams_of_a_Final_Theory.html?id=Qd0MEtsBr7oC&pg=PA250">Dreams of a Final Theory</a></i>. Vintage Books. 1994. p. 250.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dreams+of+a+Final+Theory&rft.date=1994&rft.pages=p.%26nbsp%3B250&rft.pub=Vintage+Books&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%2Fabout%2FDreams_of_a_Final_Theory.html%3Fid%3DQd0MEtsBr7oC%26pg%3DPA250&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Mystery"><span style="display: none;"> </span></span> (originally published in 1992 by Pantheon Books)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_(1895)"><span id="Dictionary_of_Burning_Words_of_Brilliant_Writers_.281895.29"></span><i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mystery&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small>Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, <i>Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers</i> (1895).</small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>Whoever <a href="/wiki/Believes" class="mw-redirect" title="Believes">believes</a> in a <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> at <a href="/wiki/All" class="mw-redirect" title="All">all</a>, believes in an <a href="/wiki/Infinite" class="mw-redirect" title="Infinite">infinite</a> mystery; and if the existence of God is such an infinite mystery, we can very well expect and afford to have many of His ways mysterious to us.</b> <ul><li>Ichabod Spencer, p. 421.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">Nature</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-Ren%C3%A9_de_Chateaubriand" title="François-René de Chateaubriand">François-René de Chateaubriand</a>, p. 421.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of <a href="/wiki/Sand" title="Sand">sand</a> is a mystery; so is every <a href="/wiki/Daisy" class="mw-redirect" title="Daisy">daisy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Summer" title="Summer">summer</a>, and so is every <a href="/wiki/Snow" title="Snow">snow</a>-flake in <a href="/wiki/Winter" title="Winter">winter</a>. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, <a href="/wiki/Science" title="Science">science</a> and speculation pass into mystery at last. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Mountford" title="William Mountford">William Mountford</a>, p. 421.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo">Augustine</a>, the father of [[theologians], was walking on the <a href="/wiki/Ocean" class="mw-redirect" title="Ocean">ocean</a> shore and pondering over the truth, "three distinct persons, not separate, but distinct; and yet but one <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>;" and he came upon a little boy that was playing with a colored sea-shell, scooping a hole in the sand, and then going down to the waves and getting his shell full of water and putting it into the hole. Augustine said, "What are you doing, my little fellow? " The boy replied, "I am going to pour the [sea]] into that hole." <b>"Ah," said Augustine, "that is what I have been attempting. Standing at the ocean of <a href="/wiki/Infinity" title="Infinity">infinity</a>, I have attempted to grasp it with my finite <a href="/wiki/Mind" title="Mind">mind</a>."</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Dare_(reverend)" title="Joseph Dare (reverend)">Joseph Dare</a>, p. 421.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Were there no mysteries in the Bible, we should doubt its being the transcript of the Eternal Mind. The "mystery of godliness" adapts it to our ruined race. Those mysteries of the Bible are like the mountains of the world; they give grandeur to the landscape and fertility to the soil. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Dare_(reverend)" title="Joseph Dare (reverend)">Joseph Dare</a>, p. 422.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The mysteries of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our <a href="/wiki/Nothingness" title="Nothingness">nothingness</a> and our <a href="/wiki/Greatness" title="Greatness">greatness</a>; producing <a href="/wiki/Humility" title="Humility">humility</a>, and animating <a href="/wiki/Hope" title="Hope">hope</a>.</b> I bow before these mysteries. I knew that I should find them, and I pretend not to remove them. But whilst I thus prostrate myself, it is with deep gladness and exultation of spirit. God would not have hinted the mystery, had He not hereafter designed to explain it. And, therefore, are my thoughts on a far-off home, and rich things are around me, and the voices of many harpers, and the shinings of bright constellations, and the clusters of the cherub and the seraph; and a whisper, which seems not of this earth, is circulating through the soul, " Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known." <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Melvill" title="Henry Melvill">Henry Melvill</a>, p. 422.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Bible tells me explicitly that <a href="/wiki/Christ" title="Christ">Christ</a> was <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a>; and it tells me, as explicitly that Christ was <a href="/wiki/Man" title="Man">man</a>. It does not go on to state the modus or manner of the <a href="/wiki/Unity" title="Unity">union</a>. I stop, therefore, where the Bible stops. I bow before a God-man as my Mediator, but I own as inscrutable the mysteries of His person. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Melvill" title="Henry Melvill">Henry Melvill</a>, p. 422.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>In viewing the scheme of <a href="/wiki/Redemption" class="mw-redirect" title="Redemption">redemption</a>, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Cecil" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Cecil">Richard Cecil</a>, p. 422.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Providence" title="Providence">Providence</a> is a <a href="/wiki/Greater" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater">greater</a> mystery than <a href="/wiki/Revelation" title="Revelation">revelation</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Cecil" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard Cecil">Richard Cecil</a>, p. 423.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>That great chain of <a href="/wiki/Causes" class="mw-redirect" title="Causes">causes</a>, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Burke" title="Edmund Burke">Edmund Burke</a>, p. 423.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We know, and we feel, that the vast business of our redemption, arranged in the councils of the far-back eternity, and acted out amid the wonderings and throbbings of the universe, could not have been that stupendous transaction which gave God glory by giving sinners safety, if the inspired account brought its dimensions within the compass of a human arithmetic, or denned its issues by the lines of a human demarcation. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Melvill" title="Henry Melvill">Henry Melvill</a>, p. 423.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a> of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains.</b> Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Napoleon_Bonaparte" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoleon Bonaparte">Napoleon Bonaparte</a>, p. 423.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Can any thing be more mysterious than the union of soul and body, unless it be the still greater mystery, which some have professed to believe, that matter can be so organized as to produce the amazing intellectual results which we witness in man? In believing our own existence we believe a mystery as great as any that the Christian religion presents. <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wirt_(Attorney_General)" class="extiw" title="w:William Wirt (Attorney General)">William Wirt</a>, p. 424.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>At some turning point of your life, when some great <a href="/wiki/Joy" title="Joy">joy</a> flashed, or some great <a href="/wiki/Shadow" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow">shadow</a> darkened upon you all at once; when some crisis that wanted an instantaneous decision appeared,— why, what regions of <a href="/wiki/Thought" title="Thought">thought</a>, <a href="/wiki/Purpose" title="Purpose">purpose</a>, plan, resolution, what wildernesses of desolate <a href="/wiki/Sorrow" title="Sorrow">sorrow</a>, and what paradises of blooming gladness, your soul has gone through in a <a href="/wiki/Moment" title="Moment">moment</a>. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Maclaren" title="Alexander Maclaren">Alexander Maclaren</a>, p. 424.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We live in the midst of infinite existence; and widely as we can see, and vastly as we have discovered, we have but crossed the threshold, we have but entered the vestibule of the Creator's temple. <b>In this temple there is an everlasting worship of <a href="/wiki/Life" title="Life">life</a>, an anthem of many choruses, a hymn of incense that goes up forever.</b> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Giles" title="Henry Giles">Henry Giles</a>, p. 424.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>We are <a href="/wiki/Children" title="Children">children</a> shut up as yet in the narrow hollow of our native valley, with all the <a href="/wiki/Universe" title="Universe">universe</a>, outside the closely engirdling hills, for a great wonderland, of which we dream childish dreams, as the light of morning or evening kindles from beyond. 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