Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Takei

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

George Orwell

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

George Carlin

I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back.

Jennifer Capriati

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

Gideon Raff

The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back.

William James

The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which occasionally sweeps over one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.

Nelly Furtado

Music is one of the only inanimate things we have left. It can still be mystical, magical and awe-inspiring

Logan Pearsall Smith

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Don McLean

American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening; a mystical trip into my past.

Bill Viola

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

Edgar Mitchell

It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is

Aldous Huxley

Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience.

Salman Rushdie

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

Willie Geist

In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

Charles Cooley

''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Elfriede Jelinek

was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's cliches and their subjugating power.

Bernard Levin

No amount of manifest absurdity . . . could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

Ralph Ellison

And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

Sorin Cerin

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Oliver Goldsmith

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative