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  • Photography makes one conscious of beauty everywhere, even in the simplest things, even in what is often considered commonplace or ugly. Yet nothing is really 'ordinary', for every fragment of the world is crowned with wonder and mystery, and a great and surprising beauty.

    Alvin Langdon Coburn, Alison Gernsheim (1978). “Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photographer: An Autobiography with Over 70 Reproductions of His Works”, p.80, Courier Corporation
  • The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

  • He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.229, Princeton University Press
  • Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

    Men   Way   Mystery  
    Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco
  • It's such a biblical posture in worship that speaks of reverence. If you look through the Bible, there's a whole host of people who faced up to the glory of God and found themselves facedown in worship. So the album weaves through a theme of reverence, wonder, and mystery in worship, things I feel we really need to grasp more of in our worship expressions. I know that I do!

  • One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

    Eye   Men   Light  
  • The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

  • 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.

    Beautiful   Art   Eye  
  • It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

    Fog   Enchantment   Add  
  • The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.31, First Avenue Editions
  • If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

    Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics
  • I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

    Harry Emerson Fosdick (1958). “Riverside sermons”
  • It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

    Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.15, Open Road Media
  • We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  • Stuff your eyes with wonder.

    Life   Travel   Adventure  
    Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books
  • If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

    Nature   Children   Years  
    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

    "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

  • Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.425, Princeton University Press
  • There's way too much wonder and mystery all around us to not stay open to more that's going on here. You can wake up, and sense and feel and taste and hear a whole world right here within this one, right here in this breath you're about to take.

  • No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

    Eye   Vision   Mysterious  
    ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”
  • Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media
  • Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.

    Men   Hands   White  
    Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.241, Vintage
  • One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.26, St. Martin's Press
  • Michael Winter’s fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life… harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn’t miss for the world.

  • [Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

  • It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

    Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.309, Vintage
  • The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

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