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“The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.”

Bigs Light Able Wonder Imagine Moon Appreciate Paint Mysterious Glorious Colour Yellow Moonlight Full Moon

Author:Arthur Lismer

“The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“The scientist is activated by a wonder and awe before the mysterious comprehensibility of the universe which is yet finally beyond his grasp. In its profoundest depths it is inaccessible to man.”

Men Universe Wonder Respect Scientist Depth Mysterious Awe Inaccessible

Author:Albert Einstein

“Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.”

Wonder Strange Fool Mysterious

Book:Watchers

Source: Watchers

“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”

Wonder Mysterious Poetry Is

Author:Seamus Heaney

“Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we're writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.”

Ifs Thinking Should Writing Art Important Wonder Theory Art Is Mysterious Damage Spite

Book:Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

Source: Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.”

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Author:Stephen King

“Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... .”

Mind Humans Character Past Wonder Forever Greater Movement Infinite Complexes Depth Senses Endless Mysterious Variety Human Life Destination Mist Unfathomable Entirety Intricacy

Book:The Tesla Papers

Source: The Tesla Papers