“Patrick White is a strongly individual, richly gifted, original and highly significant writer whose powers are remarkable and whose achievement is large. His art is dense, poetic, and image-ridden. It is always a substantial and genuine thing. At its finest it is one which goes beyond an art of mere appearances to one of mysterious actuality.” ArtIndividualWhiteAchievementArt IsOriginalsMereAppearanceSignificantGenuineMysteriousRemarkablePoeticGiftedFinestDenseActuality Author:William Walsh
“Only here [in the Center] a new union can occur, as the Mysterious Pass is the ideal space and time to experience the interpenetrating fluctuations of Yin and Yang. The Mysterious Pass is therefore the primordial Chaos (hundun) containing the germ of life-the pre-cosmic sparkle of Original Yang and Original Yin-which is the prime mover and the materia prima of the alchemical work.” SpaceIdealsOriginalsUnionsChaosMysteriousPrimeCosmicTime And SpaceGermsSparkleContainingYangFluctuationYin And Yang Author:Monica Esposito
“Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what they have to work from. It's one of the great, powerful, mysterious objects that have come down through history. This does not translate into literal interpretation for me.” KnowsDoeProblemPowerfulStruggleObjectsOriginalsMysteriousInterpretationScholarTranslateBiblicalScholarshipLiteralGreat PowerGreat Powerful Author:Marilynne Robinson
“I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.” PeopleThinkingFeelsTechnologyMagicSmartOriginalsMysteriousObservationRelyDevicesAutomobile Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“I'm not an expert here. I'm talking about an experience I had rather than something I intellectually worked out. From what I can gather, the original mystery religions are still, largely, as the name suggests, mysterious. But they are associated with intoxication, fertility and resurrection.” StillsI CanNamesTalkingMysteryOriginalsMysteriousExpertsResurrectionIntoxicationFertility Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“The quote is always fascinating because it changes out of context, becomes different and sometimes more mysterious. It has a directness and assertiveness it may not have had in the original. I think the quality of inaccessibility, the mystery, is important - that whatever matters can't be taken in on just one reading or one seeing. This is certainly a quality of the little of art that lasts.” ThinkingMayLittlesArtImportantDifferentSometimesMatterLastsReadingQualityTakenSeeingMysteryOriginalsMysteriousJust OneFascinatingAssertivenessOf Context Author:Susan Sontag