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Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. -- Booth Tarkington
Mystics are no humans but a species different; they are always young and never do they die. -- Junaid e Mustafa
That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. -- Florence Nightingale
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do. -- Richard Dawkins
Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Mystics understand the roots of the Tao but not its branches; scientists understand its branches but not its roots. Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science; but man needs both. -- Fritjof Capra
A religion without mystics is a philosophy. -- Quintilian
Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics. -- Plato
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics. -- Karl Rahner
All mystics have had psychotic breakdowns, although not all psychotics are mystics. -- James Curcio
All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country. -- Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. -- Meister Eckhart
I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach. -- Sol LeWitt
Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant. -- John Piper
Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence, -- Ayn Rand
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law. -- Tom Shadyac
Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. -- Anne Desclos
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. -- Alan Watts
My house was a guest house of many Jaina saints, Hindu monks, Sufi mystics, because my grandfather was interested in all of these people. -- Rajneesh
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Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them. -- Ram Dass
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. -- Warren Zevon
I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind. -- Don Ameche
Our destiny is to be so intimately united with God that, as the mystics say, we not only see God's face but also see with God's face. -- Peter Kreeft
You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying. -- Anthony de Mello
One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved. -- Diane Ackerman
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty. -- Philip Yancey
Scientists willing to risk their reputations on higher dimensions soon found themselves ridiculed by the scientific community. Higher-dimensional space became the last refuge for mystics, cranks, and charlatans. -- Michio Kaku
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What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You. -- Martin Buber
I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer. -- Andres Segovia
The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria. -- James Redfield
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life. -- Anais Nin
The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts and emotions are not subject to the dominion of the herd. -- Bertrand Russell
The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action. -- Ayn Rand
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs. -- Tama J. Kieves
For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell? -- Gerald Stern
Whenever the essential nature of things is analysed by the intellect, it must seem absurd or paradoxical. This has always been recognized by the mystics, but has become a problem in science only very recently. -- Fritjof Capra

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