Words matter. These are the best Unknowable Quotes from famous people such as Michael Leunig, Sam Esmail, Elizabeth Gilbert, Darin Strauss, Zygmunt Bauman, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what’s going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression.
The world is so heavily influenced by technology, and it has started to feel like it’s not on solid ground. The world has become unreliable, unknowable. Facts are vulnerable, and things you have come to rely on are no longer there.
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.
I think it’s a wonderful fact about Judaism – at least about the approach to Judaism I most relate to: There are no universal answers. We don’t have it all figured out. God is unknowable.
Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming – all such things sound the death knell to love.
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.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of 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.
I do like the idea that tomorrow I might find out that I’m going to be doing something that is completely unknowable today. I think it forces you to live in the moment in a very good way.
When I look back at my childhood on the Ayrshire coast, I recall a basic devotion to the idea that human nature and national character are as unknowable as the weather’s rationale.
‘Hamlet’ is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what’s real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.
Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in ‘Spider-Man’ is human and flawed.
People remain unknowable to us, even people that we’re very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.
Billions of people around the globe had come to know Barack Obama, had heard his words, had watched his speeches, and, in some unknowable but irreducible way, had come to see the world as a place that could – in some incremental way – change.
God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
