“When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.”
Source: Arcadia
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“We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown.”
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
Context: We have found a strange foot-print on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.<!--p.201
As quoted in The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century : A Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Frank S. Pepper, p. 226
Context: When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest secret of all — except life. We shall have found the basis of everything — of the earth we walk on, of the air we breathe, of the sunshine, of our physical body itself, of everything in the world, however great or however small — except life.
“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”
Source: Every Day
Source: Love and Will (1969), Ch. 1 : Introduction : Our Schizoid World, p. 15
“All is not lost. But neither is it found.”
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 133, “Glittering Stone: A Dangerous Game” (p. 741)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 259.