Quotes About Knowledge

You can get from the noumenal to the phenomenal without stirring from your chair. In other words, nothing can be excerpted from the absolute without being rendered perceptual.

There's data in the world available only to those who have reached a certain level of wretchedness. You dont know what's down there if you havent been down there.

Aldrig mer är en lång tid. Men pojken visste det han visste. Att aldrig mer inte är någon tid alls.

Yo creo que la verdad siempre es simple. Y lo es por fuerza. Tiene que ser lo bastante simple para que la entienda un niño.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly

Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him. By

Lo que escapa a mi conocimiento, escapa a mi consentimiento.

Ones convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it.

È interessante sapere come funziona il mondo. [...] La gente mi chiede «Perche ti interessa la fisica?». Ma perche non dovrebbe? Per me, la cosa più curiosa di tutte è la mancanza di curiosità. Proprio non la capisco.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all. By

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life hidden from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

La vanidad del hombre podrá ser infinita pero su saber sigue siendo imperfecto y por más que valore sus juicios llegará un momento en que tendrá que someterlos al arbitrio de una instancia superior. Y

Vuestro máximo deseo es que os cuente algún misterio. El misterio es que no hay ningún misterio.

they nodded solemnly and they were careful of their demeanor that they not be thought to have opinions on what they heard for like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.

You will never know what the world is made of. The only thing that's certain is that it's not made of the world. As you close upon some mathematical description of reality you can't help but lose what is being described.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

Sheddan said once that having read a few dozen books in common was more binding than blood.

Es un gran misterio. El hombre no puede conocer su mente porque la mente es el único medio de que dispone para conocerla. Puede conocer su corazón, pero no quiere. Y hace bien. Es mejor no mirar ahí dentro. No es el corazón de una criatura que siga el camino que Dios le ha marcado. Se puede encontrar maldad hasta en el más pequeño de los animales, pero cuando Dios creó al hombre el diablo estaba a su lado. Una

Qualunque cosa esista, disse. Qualunque cosa esista nella creazione senza che io la conosca esiste senza il mio consenso.

But one's convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it. And then I just stopped worrying about it. I accepted the fact that I would die without really knowing where it was that I had been and that was okay. Well. Almost.

It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.