“I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests.”
Winston Churchill
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
Anais Nin
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]”
“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of umitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soo”
Henry Louis Mencken
