#unknowable

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

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#centuries #explaining #terms #theologians #unknowable

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#music #name #unknowable

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#asks #because #conceal #does #either

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable. ↗

— Abraham Robinson

#as far as #even #facts #far #i

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#capacity #highest #man #then #theoretical

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible. ↗

— Leo Strauss

#fundamental #god #premise #therefore #unknowable

It frustrates and fascinates me that we'll never know for sure, that despite the best efforts of historians and scientists and poets, there are some things we'll just never know. What the first song sounded like. How it felt to see the first photograph. Who kissed the first kiss, and if it was any good. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#the-unknowable #effort

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#ancient rome #attendant #back #beings #believe