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“Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?”

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Book:An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

Source: An Agnostic's Apology, and Other Essays

“You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up.”

Mystery Ignorant Journalist

Book:Night Film

Source: Night Film

“I maintain that we are still a largely ignorant society when it comes to sex. We speak incorrectly and superficially about sexuality. And when you talk about it too much, you run the risk of destroying its mystery.”

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Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science in any particular... whether the Lord found the earth empty and void, whether he made it out of nothing or out of the rude elements; or whether he made it in six days or in as many millions of years, is and will remain a matter of speculation in the minds of men unless he give revelation on the subject. If we understood the process of creation there would be no mystery about it, it would be all reasonable and plain, for there is no mystery except to the ignorant.”

“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!”

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Book:Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book

Source: Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book

“That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.”

Known Mystery Ignorant

Book:Anthills of the Savannah

Source: Anthills of the Savannah