#2,693

An “explanation” consists in the end in assimilating a strange mystery to a familiar mystery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434

#2,648

Let us not confuse the specific stratum of mystery with the stratum of the unexplainable.
For it might be merely the stratum of the unexplained.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

#2,525

Man pays for the powers he acquires over the world by giving up the meaning of things.
To construct the theory of wind one must renounce the mystery of a whirlwind of dry leaves.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 406

#2,438

Words do not decipher the mystery, but they do shed light on it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 393

#2,410

To understand is finally to make fact after fact coincide with our own mystery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 389

#2,301

A nation does not “demystify” its past without impoverishing its present substance.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 373

#1,197

We presume we can explain history, and yet we fail before the mystery of the person we know best.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 209

#1,004

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 180

#353

Love is not a mystery but a place where mystery is dissolved.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 74