„Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops“

— H.L. Mencken

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„The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets.“
— Swami Vivekananda
„We dance round in a ring and suppose,But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.“
— Robert Frost
„Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„you are not too oldand it is not too lateto dive into your increasing depthswhere life calmly gives outit's own secret“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.“
— Rick Riordan
„The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself.“
— Thich Nhat Hanh
„We find only what we seek: nature has many secrets to give us, but she will not surrender them until we sit down patiently before her and obey her laws. Only by such submission do we receive.“
— Fulton J. Sheen
„Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.“
— James Joyce
„My brain is only a receiver. In the universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength, inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.“
— Nikola Tesla