Quotes About Unknowing

the journey from knowing into unknowing into knowing that you call

You have to operate, at least some of the time, in the world of mystery, beneath that great and terrifying cloud of artistic unknowing

Whenever its name has been anything but a jest, philosophy has been haunted by a subterranean question: What if knowledge were a means to deepen unknowing?

God is nowhere to be found, yet there is still so much light! Light that dazzles and maddens; crisp, ruthless light. Space echoes like an immense tomb, yet the stars still burn. Why does the sun take so long to die? Or the moon retain such fidelity to the Earth? Where is the new darkness? The greatest of all unknowings? Is death itself shy of us?

The Classical died, as we shall die, but it died unknowing. It believed in an eternal Being and to the last it lived its days with frank satisfaction, each day spent as a gift of the gods. But we know our history.

Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.