#myst

In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare... ↗

— Richard Yancey

#dogs #humor #mystery #philosophy #nature

Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#creativity #idea #mystical #nurtured #practised

Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#even #extremely #fate #mysterious #opponent

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not. ↗

— Simone Weil

#mysticism #beauty

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#been #called #find #gentleman #i

I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#honest #i #mystic #nostalgia #prefer

Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts. ↗

— Jack Gilbert

#mystical #sex #beauty

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies. ↗

— Jennifer Capriati

#happened #i #know #lies #many

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie? ↗

— Sophia Bush

#makes #movie #movie stars #mystery #pay

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#am #enlighten #expressing #forms #i