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“There are places, just as there are people and objects... whose relationship of parts creates a mystery.”

People Mystery Objects

Book:Paul Nash places

Source: Paul Nash places

“The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?”

Humans Facts Hands Universe Decision Brain Known Fate Mystery Objects Behavior Consequence Fortune Human Behavior Fists Human Brain Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.”

God Christian Religion Causes Easy Religious Answers Wonder Christianity Lord Knowledge Mystery Objects Tasks Christian Inspirational Questioning Bishops Easy Answers

Book:The Orthodox Way

Source: The Orthodox Way

“Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.”

Thinking Knows May Persons Doe Matter Opinion Air Mystery Objects Taste Reactions Passing Passings Attractive Comment Bob Reserves Charming Items Crude Auras Bad Taste Charming Woman

Author:Margery Wilson

“Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

Love Loses Mystery Objects Divine Highest Flood Rapture Forbidden Love

Book:George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.”

World Problem Values Process Term Mystery Objects Patterns Disappear Substance Stable Reverse Unified Containment

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.”

Source: George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss

“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.”

Mystery Example Objects Horse Metaphor Worthy Generosity Contemplation Unpredictability

Author:Jane Smiley

“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”

Ifs Should Made Reality Spiritual Mystery Objects Contemplation Affirmation Aggravation Negation

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.”

Eye Vision Seeing Mystery Objects Mysterious Awe Wonder And Mystery Mysterious World

Book:The House In Paris

Source: The House In Paris

“..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget”

Mind Causes Mystery Objects Bears Newspapers Sensations Marie

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“In the world of the superheroes, everything had value, potential, mystery. Any person, thing, or object could be drafted into service in the struggle against darkness and evil - remade as a weapon or a warrior or a superhero. Even a little bee named Michael - after God's own avenging angel - could pitch in to win the battle against wickedness.”

World Littles Persons Values Evil Winning Darkness Struggle Mystery Objects Battle Weapons Angel Warrior Bees Superhero Wickedness Avenging Little Bee

Book:Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

Source: Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero

“Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappearance as about the loss itself.”

Loss Mystery Objects Intellectual Losing Frustration Distress Disappearance

Author:Alain de Botton

“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.”

Knows Way Moments Found Lost Forever Wonderful Mystery Objects Surface Mysterious Fragments Parts Of Life Mysterious Ways

Book:The Bonesetter's Daughter

Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter