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“Human beings go to church. The guy in the front dressed in black is the guy you defer to. He is in charge of the mysteries of universe, which ordinary human beings don't seem to have the inclination to understand.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.”

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Book:The Concept of Nature

Source: The Concept of Nature

“The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.”

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Author:P. D. James

“When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.”

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Author:Terry Taylor

“The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.”

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Book:The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

Source: The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt

“Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.”

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Author:Daniel Dennett

“The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is a mystery that's solved completely. It's a letdown. It always seems less than what we imagined when the mystery was present. The last scene in `Blow Up' is so perfect because you leave the theater still dreaming. Or the end of `Chinatown,' where the guy says `Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' It explains so much but it only gives you a dream of a bigger mystery. Like life. For me, I want to solve certain things but leave some room to dream.”

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Author:David

“When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules.”

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Book:Advertisements for Myself

Source: Advertisements for Myself

“The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson