#unknow

Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are ignorant. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#ignorance #intolerance #knowledge #primitive #unknow

Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure. For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential. ↗

— David W. Jones

#death #disney-world #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

Chronological time is what we measure by clocks and calendars; it is always linear, orderly, quantifiable, and mechanical. Kairotic time is organic, rhythmic, bodily, leisurely, and aperiodic; it is the inner cadence that brings fruit to ripeness, a woman to childbirth, a man to change the direction of his life. ↗

— Sam Keen

#change

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming

There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired. ↗

— Carl Henegan

#kisses #love #unknown #love

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know. ↗

— Eduardo Chillida

#enough #even #know #lies #never

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#dread #great #inspires #life #more

Something unknown is doing we don't know what. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

#know #something #unknown

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#completely #contact #continuous #except #gave

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much