Unknowable Quotes

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

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

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

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.

Music can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

One drop has just fallen.It is a precious moment, and one that is full of poignancy. In surrendering to gravity and slipping off the leaf, the drop loses its previous identity and joins the vastness of the water below. We can imagine that it must have trembled before it fell, just on the edge between the known and the unknowable.

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.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

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

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

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the 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.

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