Source: Titans of Chaos (2007), Chapter 8, “Pallid Hounds A-Hunting” Section 1 (p. 106)
“Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.”
“Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.”
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.
“Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life.”
Source: The Witches of Worm
15 January 1753
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
interview published in Superstrings: A Theory of Everything? (1988) edited by Paul C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown, p. 208-209
Context: God was always invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries. So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that. God is always associated with those things that you do not understand. Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.
Source: Drenai series, Quest for Lost Heroes, Ch. 2
“Time is both a mystery and a miracle. A marvel and magic! We live in time and time lives in us.”
Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 7. (2021)
