„He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.“

„Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.“

—  James Joyce Irish novelist and poet 1882 - 1941

„He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.“

—  Mircea Eliade, livro The Forge and the Crucible

The Forge and the Crucible (1956).
Contexto: In virtue of this, the artisan is a connoisseur of secrets, a magician; thus all crafts include some kind off initiation and are handed down by an occult tradition. He who 'makes' real things is he who knows the secret of making them.

„We two have secret signs,
known to us both but hidden from the world.“

—  Homér, The Odyssey (Cowper)

XXIII. 109–110 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
Original: (el) Ἔστι γὰρ ἥμιν
σήμαθ', ἃ δὴ καὶ νῶϊ κεκρυμμένα ἴδμεν ἀπ' ἄλλων.

„Concomitance simply means, at last, that both series of changes are connected with some cause, distinct from either, which is the secret of both.“

—  George Holmes Howison American philosopher 1834 - 1916

Fonte: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Human Immortality: its Positive Argument, p.296

„Everything is both a trap and a display; the secret reality of the object is what the Other makes of it.“

—  Jean Paul Sartre, livro Critique of Dialectical Reason

Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)

„It is a complex subject: the Muslim Brotherhood comprises both a transnational network, with links in the UK, and national organisations in and outside the Islamic world. The movement is deliberately opaque, and habitually secretive.“

—  David Cameron Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1966

2010s, 2015, Muslim Brotherhood Review (20 July 2015)

„Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes:
But the name of the secret is Love!“

—  Lewis Carroll, livro Sylvie and Bruno

Fonte: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893), Chapter 19: A Fairy Duet

„I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.“

—  Germaine Greer, livro The Female Eunuch

Fonte: The Female Eunuch

„Everybody has a secret world inside of them.“

—  Neil Gaiman, Sandman

The Sandman
Contexto: Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

„If we knew each other's secrets, what comfort we would find.“

—  John Churton Collins British literary critic 1848 - 1908

Variante: If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

„After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.“

—  Arthur C. Clarke, livro 2010: Odyssey Two

Fonte: 2010: Odyssey Two

„Whoever wishes to quickly afford protection
To both himself and others
Should practice that holy secret:
The exchanging of self for others.“

—  Šantidéva 8th-century Indian Buddhist monk and scholar 685 - 763

Attributed

„Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.“

—  John Jay Chapman American author 1862 - 1933

Memories and Milestones, Ch. 12: "President Eliot" HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=gFEPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22every+generation+is+a+secret+society+and+has+incommunicable+enthusiasms+tastes+and+interests+which+are+a+mystery+both+to+its+predecessors+and+to+posterity%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage (1915)

„Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.“

—  Zora Neale Hurston, livro Dust Tracks on a Road

Fonte: Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10 : Research, p. 143

„Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry. I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line.“

—  Denise Levertov Poet 1923 - 1997

O Taste and See : New Poems (1964), The Secret
Fonte: Poems, 1960-1967

„We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.“

—  Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell… You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl“

—  Cecily von Ziegesar American writer 1970

„No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life.“

—  Khaled Hosseini, livro And the Mountains Echoed

Fonte: And the Mountains Echoed

„Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret things He willeth we should know hid until the time that He will clearly shew them to us.“

—  Julian of Norwich English theologian and anchoress 1342 - 1416

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 34
Contexto: Our Lord God shewed two manner of secret things. One is this great Secret with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret things He willeth we should know hid until the time that He will clearly shew them to us. The other are the secret things that He willeth to make open and known to us; for He would have us understand that it is His will that we should know them. They are secrets to us not only for that He willeth that they be secrets to us, but they are secrets to us for our blindness and our ignorance; and thereof He hath great ruth, and therefore He will Himself make them more open to us, whereby we may know Him and love Him and cleave to Him. For all that is speedful for us to learn and to know, full courteously will our Lord shew us.