
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
Source: The Optimist's Daughter
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
le mystère de l'amour est plus grand que le mystère de la mort.
Source: Salomé (1893)
As translated by Jerome Rothenberg
Venetian Epigrams (1790)
“Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 423.
“There is no greater mystery than this: being Reality ourselves, we seek to gain Reality.”
Abide as the Self
“A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.”
Young Men and Fire (1992)
“You know how sailors love to create mystery where there is none.”
A Tradition of Victory, Cap 2 "No Looking Back"
“Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
Variant translation: The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
Original German: Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern dass sie ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variant: The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.
Context: It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)
As quoted in the article The Human Brain — Three Pounds of Mystery, in 'The Watchtower' magazine (15 July 1978)
“A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.”
Poems (1869), A Strip of Blue (1870)
Context: A part is greater than the whole;
By hints are mysteries told.
The fringes of eternity, —
God's sweeping garment-fold,
In that bright shred of glittering sea,
I reach out for and hold.
“Dragonfly” (p. 199)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)