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Essay · Philosophical literature

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea.

John Stuart Mill

The Utility of Religion · 1873

★ 6.2

To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

De Profundis · 1897

★ 6.1

TV program · Science fiction (TV) · Science fiction

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

1960

★ 5.1

Essay · Magazine

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 4.5

Children's literature

Curiouser and curiouser!

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland · 1865

★ 4.0

Novel · Western literature

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West · 1985

★ 3.7

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

1970

★ 3.5

The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.

1980

★ 3.5

The only valid thing in art is that which cannot be explained.

1957

★ 1.1