We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.
At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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