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Unknowable Quotes

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

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

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

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.
Leslie Stephen

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

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

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
Leonard Bernstein

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

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg

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

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

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