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“The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.”

People Men Believe Behinds Mystery Pride Involved Logic Familiar Superiors Clans

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.”

World Spiritual Fun Mystery Theater Lovely Familiar Obedient Refreshing

Author:Mary Oliver

“Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.”

Men Art Science Order Easy Struggle Mystery Creation He Man Balance Chaos Edges Familiar Novelty Synthesis Easy Life

Book:Uncommon Sense

Source: Uncommon Sense

“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”

Facts Perfect Mystery Laughter Conservative Familiar Bliss Sufficient Conservatism Convenient Utopian

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)”

Firsts Humans Matter Young Courses Loses Mystery Familiar Mysterious Bells Instability Familiar Things

Book:The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

Source: The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)

“Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.”

Knows Children Seems Seeing Mystery Inspire Photograph Familiar Confrontation Handwriting

Book:Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them

“The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.”

Stars Music Break Mystery Tree Infinite Blue Familiar Hills Ache Break Out Ineffable

Book:Sadhana

Source: Sadhana