Best mystery & language Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.”

Source: Searching for God Knows What

“I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.”

Writing Kind Book Matter Play Use Romance Language Dark Mystery Subjects Strange Murder Plot Why Not Subject Matter Thrillers Harlequin

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language.”

Spiritual Poetry Universe Three Energy Language Mystery Curiosity Ingredients

Book:Blue Pastures

Source: Blue Pastures

“The Language of Sand has something for everyone: myths, mystery, community, humor, grief, and ultimately healing. I found myself not only rooting for Abigail but for the whole community of Chapel Isle. Block manages to hold sass and heartfelt emotion in perfect equilibrium.”

Whole Found Language Community Perfect Grief Emotion Healing Mystery Myth Block Manage Sand Equilibrium Heartfelt Chapel Isle Sass Abigail

Author:Brunonia Barry

“Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.”

Firsts Has Beens Different Feelings Seems Past Language Water Alive Mystery Elements Worship Awe Internals Ancestor Responding Rushing Chimpanzees Prehistoric Mystery Of Nature

Author:Jane Goodall

“Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.”

World Love Language Music Technology Our Lives Mystery Music Is Laughter Universal Importance Missions Preserves Commerce Universal Language Language Of Love

Author:Alicia Keys

“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.”

Littles Long Hard Form Speak Language Easy Knowledge Mystery Ignorance Speech Abuse Mysterious Height Vague Mistaken Speculation Prescriptions Hindrance True Knowledge Deep Learning

Author:John Locke

“The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.”

Humans Use Lying Language Mystery Human Life Use Of Language

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.] Thus Cantor's Absolute is a perfect image for what we experience of God. When I speak of a Big Enough God I am not merely thinking of an Infinite God, but the God of infinities, the Absolute, which either chooses to reveal itself or remains veiled in mystery. Modern mathematics does begin to feel like the language that God talks.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Doe Enough Bigs Speak Language Perfect Numbers Mystery Modern Prove Absolutes Infinite Mathematics Remains Series Size Infinity

Author:Sara Maitland

“The language of God is Mystery.”

Language Mystery

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.”

Men Language Mystery Communicate Symbols Limitation Symbolism

Book:The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

Source: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy

“The operas I listen to aren't in English, and I want to listen to my opera after I'm done with it. I want to have the desire to play it on the stereo. To me, the language is part of the mystery.”

Want Done Play Desire Language Mystery Opera

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.”

Men World Different Problem Reality Moving Language Process Understanding Growing Mystery Rocks Flow Ears Lays Solve Coffee Rulers Finest Mystery Of Life Growing Things

Author:Frank Herbert

“Puzzles lead to logical answers; mysteries often force us to stretch language to its limits in an attempt to describe a reality that is just too great to take in properly.”

Reality Language Force Answers Mystery Limits Logical Puzzles

Book:The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion

Source: The Living God: A Guide for Study and Devotion

“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

“I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.”

Thinking Needs Should Language Written Mystery Bewilderment

Author:Matthea Harvey

“In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by any outer definition and to give up acts of futility. It is to let the world remain a mystery that cannot be captured by science, language, or any invention of the mind.”

World Giving Mind Self Language Term Effort Mystery Buddhism Giving Up Definitions Invention Captured Futility Zen Buddhism

Author:Mike Scheidt

“It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery novel, and that if you can put together the clues, you can come up with one singular answer.”

People Together Language Novel Mystery Clue

Author:Carey Mercer

“It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.”

Years Stills Girl Language Mystery Urgent Tell A Girl

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?”

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Author:Scarlett Thomas

“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.”

Soul Reading Language Born Imagination Pleasure Fiction Known Novel Mystery Exploring Carried Away Recess Pleasure Of Reading

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”

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Book:Stoner: A Novel

Source: Stoner: A Novel

“Metaphor is the only possible language available to religion because it alone is honest about Mystery.”

Language Mystery Honest Metaphor Available

Book:Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self

Source: Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self

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