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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.-- Albert Einstein
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."-- G. K. Chesterton
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.-- Mark Twain ("The Mysterious Stranger")
The haunting fragrance of her mysterious perfume lingered with me long after the blinding sting of her pepper spray had faded.-- Nick DeCamp
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction after all has to make sense, right?
I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.-- Richard Moss
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.-- Richard Rodriguez
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.-- Sunshine magazine
Support your local medical examiner. Die strangely.-- Nikki Gustas
Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.-- Anais Nin
It's so strange how out of nowhere parents can turn psychic. It's unnerving.-- Angela Chase
"It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth."-- G'Kar (Babylon 5)
I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
"The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."-- P. B. Medawar
"It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees."
-- Boris Marshalov
A committee is an alley down which good ideas are lead and quietly strangled
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-- Kahlil Gibran
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.-- Terry Pratchett ("Equal Rites")
"We're not talking about the same thing," he said. "For you the world is weird because if you're not bored with it you're at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must accept responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.-- Don Juan
I think the strangest (or, perhaps, at least the most inappropriate) conversation I've ever had during sex with anyone was a long discussion (punctuated by the obvious noises) of analytic means of setting a bound on the primality of generalised Fibonacci numbers.-- Kay Dekker
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.-- Ashleigh Brilliant