One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
A strange mystery it is that nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child subject still to her power but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother.
All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.
Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
