Mystic Quotes

My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. (Hans Hofmann)
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. View quote
Robert Wyatt
I'm a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after 'Mystic Pizza', not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in. View quote
Vincent D'Onofrio
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. View quote
Albert Hofmann
A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me. View quote
Peter Porter (poet)
I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one. Where other civilizations give a satisfactory outlet to only one temperamental type, be he mystic or soldier, business man or artist, a civilization in which there are many standards offers a possibility of satisfactory adjustment to individuals of many different temperamental types, of diverse gifts and varying interests. (Margaret Mead)
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
A decision, an action, are infallible omens of what we shall do another time, not for any vague, mystic, astrological reason but because they result from an automatic reaction that will repeat itself. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Unwind my riddle. Cruel as hawks the hours fly; Wounded men seldom come home to die; The hard waves see an arm flung high; Scorn hits strong because of a lie; Yet there exists a mystic tie. Unwind my riddle. View quote
Stephen Crane
Sense of justice is one of the most wonderful ideals of Islam, because as I read in the Quran I find those dynamic principles of life, not mystic but practical ethics for the daily conduct of life suited to the whole world. View quote
Sarojini Naidu
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, Smell the sea and feel the sky. Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic. View quote
Van Morrison
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love - so what difference would it make? View quote
Isaac Asimov
The first time I felt I was famous was when I went to the movies with my mom. I had gone to the loo, and someone in the bathroom said in a very loud voice, "Girl in stall No. 1 were you in "Mystic Pizza?" View quote
Julia Roberts
The mystic too full of God to speak intelligibly to the world. (Arthur Symons)
The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within. View quote
Fritjof Capra
Both the physicist and the mystic want to communicate their knowledge, and when they do so with words their statements are paradoxical and full of logical contradictions. View quote
Fritjof Capra
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature and against the social misery which surrounds him. This characterolgical armoring of the character is the basis of isolation, indigence, craving for authority, fear of responsibility, mystic longing, sexual misery, and neurotically impotent rebelliousness. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. View quote
Abraham Lincoln