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“Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.”

Mystery Ignorance Depends Delightful

Book:The Analysis of Mind

Source: The Analysis of Mind

“My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.”

Hands Action Life Is Night Mystery Depends Protection Guides Guide Me

Book:The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

Source: The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters

“The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.”

Firsts Seems Mystery Crime Depends Bears Relation Originals Glances

Author:Elsa Barker

“I'm primarily a poet, so I'd have to say in my case I'd investigate the mystery in poetry in a different way than prose might investigate it, in a way that includes the power of the music of language and maybe more imaginatively in poetry, but I don't really know about better or worse. I guess it depends on the writer.”

Knows Way Different Might Language Cases Mystery Poet Depends Different Ways Prose

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.”

Humans Choices Realizing Destiny Fate Mystery Depends Realization Cycles Inhuman Cockroaches

Author:Clarice Lispector

“Eating with the fullest pleasure - pleasure, that is, that does not depend on ignorance - is perhaps the profoundest enactment of our connection with the world. In this pleasure we experience our dependence and our gratitude, for we are living in a mystery, from creatures we did not make and powers we cannot comprehend.”

World Doe Pleasure Mystery Food Ignorance Depends Gratitude Creatures Eating Connections Dependence

Book:What Are People For?: Essays

Source: What Are People For?: Essays

“What you can imagine depends on what you know. Philosophers who know only philosophy consign themselves to a janitorial role in the great enterprises of exploration that are illuminating the mysteries of our lives.”

Knows Philosophy Roles Our Lives Imagine Mystery Depends Philosopher Enterprise Exploration Illuminating

Author:Daniel Dennett