“We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.”
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”
Source: The Cubist Painters
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“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
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(1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Part 5, Chapter 18.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)
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Simón Bolívar
(1783–1830) Venezuelan military and political leader, South American libertador
As quoted in The World’s Great Speeches, Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, edit., Dover Publications Inc. (1958) p. 386
The Angostura Address (1819)
Context: The continuation of authority in the same person has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer Power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.
“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”
Ken Kesey
(1935–2001) novelist
"The Art of Fiction" - interview by Robert Faggen, The Paris Review No. 130 (Spring 1994) <!-- p. 92 -->
Context: I'm for mystery, not interpretive answers. … The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
John Jay
(1745–1829) American politician and a founding father of the United States
Letter to the President of the English Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/jay-to-english-society.html (June 1788).
1780s
“Love's mysteries in souls do grow,
But yet the body is his book.”
John Donne
(1572–1631) English poet
The Extasy, line 71
Source: The Complete English Poems