“All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade—wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.”
“Dragonfly” (p. 199)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
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Philip K. Dick book The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
Source: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965), Chapter 8 (p. 143)
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, The Engines of God (1994), Chapter 25 (p. 356)
Chapman Cohen (1868–1954) British atheist and secularist writer and lecturer
p. 96 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89009314162&view=1up&seq=100 <br class="br">Determinism or Free-will? (1912)
“Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
The Book of Wisdom
Context: Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
Clifford D. Simak book Time and Again
Source: Time and Again (1951), Chapter I (p. 6)
Context: There is mystery here, but a soft, sure mystery that is understood and only remains a mystery because I want it so. The mystery of the nighthawk against a darkening sky, the puzzle of the firefly along the lilac hedge.
Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000) British mathematician
The Nature of Time (1961) as quoted by Douglas Martin, "Gerald J. Whitrow, 87, Author Of Philosophic Tomes on Time" The New York Times (June 27, 2000)