The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, vain and irresolute authors.
I prefer the mystic clouds of nostalgia to the real thing, to be honest.
Whence did the wond'rous mystic art arise, Of painting SPEECH, and speaking to the eyes? That we by tracing magic lines are taught, How to embody, and to colour THOUGHT?
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.
The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
I had been a kind of natural mystic my whole life, growing up there in Tennessee next to the river. Somehow, that was important for my consciousness. I still don't study [mysticism]. I just wait for experiences.
The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
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.
A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?