The greatest writers of this age… are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Sing, my tongue, the Saviour’s glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world’s redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.

And so we come to it – the everlasting mystery of woman. One may not be able to get along with her; yet is it patent, as of old time, that one cannot get along without her.

I still read the books to-day, but never again shall I read them with that old glory of youthful passion when I harked to the call from over and beyond that whispered me on to win to the mystery at the back of life and behind the stars.

“According to Max Planck, ‘Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with.’ And he continued: ‘Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It’s just a fear of not knowing what women have that’s so powerful. It’s this shield they put up to try to get closer.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion

In its flawless grace and superior self-sufficiency I have seen a symbol of the perfect beauty and bland impersonality of the universe itself, objectively considered, and in its air of silent mystery there resides for me all the wonder and fascination of the unknown.

To find love I must enter into the sanctuary where it is hidden, which is the mystery of God.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man — the mystery, the power, the freedom.

So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth’s fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of the old earth ebbing out.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Time was mathematically explicable; it was the heart—the part of the brain represented by the heart—that was the mystery.

Why do two people fall in love? It’s a mystery.

A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

You know I was curious – I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery.

When I was young, I said to God, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the universe.’ But God answered, ‘That knowledge is for me alone.’ So I said, ‘God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.’ Then God said, ‘Well George, that’s more nearly your size.’ And he told me.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Often, the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth.