Mystification Quotes

#1. Public opinion, - a tyrant, sitting in the dark, wrapt up in mystification and vague terrors of obscurity; deriving power no one knows from whom ... - but irresistible in its power to quell thought, to repress action, to silence conviction ...

Harriet Martineau

#2. his thoughts revolving silently in this squirrel-cage of mystification.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#3. There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

Eugene Ionesco

#4. in his view, literature's worth lies in its power of mystification, in mystification it has its truth; therefore a fake, as the mystification of a mystification, is tantamount to a truth squared. He

Italo Calvino

#5. Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Julian Barnes

#6. In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.

Christopher Lloyd

#7. Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#8. The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power actually functions in the society, and the faculty has caught the message and they do it magnificently.

Noam Chomsky

#9. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

E.B. White

#10. Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.

Marjorie Holmes

#11. What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses.

Carl Sagan

#12. The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.

Hazel V. Carby

#13. While many questions about quantum mechanics are still not fully resolved, there is no point in introducing needless mystification where in fact no problem exists. Yet a great deal of recent writing about quantum mechanics has done just that.

Murray Gell-Mann

#14. Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

Leonard Roy Frank

#15. I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.

Marlene Dumas

#16. History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

John Berger

#17. Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident

John Berger

#18. Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.

Idries Shah

#19. It turns out you have to be an apprentice in this world.

Cheryl Strayed

#20. Next to her, I felt like Carrot Top in drag.
Cat re: Annette

Jeaniene Frost

#21. Of those things that would make a difference, which are right for me?

Peter Drucker

#22. The knowledge of self is the most important thing, because how are you going to know God if you don't know yourself? How are you going to know anything if you don't know yourself?

RZA

#23. No one tells you how gone gone really is, or how long it lasts.

Jandy Nelson

#24. I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

Gene Siskel