Quotes About Unknown

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes. Fear is the basis of the whole thing -- fear of the mysterious, fear of defeat, fear of death. Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion have gone hand in hand.

Thus we find that, although the relations of physical objects have all sorts of knowable properties, derived from their correspondence with the relations of sense-data, the physical objects themselves remain unknown in their intrinsic nature, so far at least as can be discovered by means of the senses.

Don't go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven't traveled this way before. Joshua 3:4

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

When we walk with the Lord, the dark is actually a place we can never fully be. The unknown is not so frightening when we realize that our all-knowing God is in it. We know Him. And once we experience His light in the midst of darkness, our darkness will never be the same.

Quella sera, non fossero stati tanto i forestieri ad abbattere i passerotti, quanto piuttosto questi ultimi, uccelli magici volati da un luogo sconosciuto, a prendere d'assalto le loro anime vagabonde.

The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.

The essence of adventure lies in taking risks and exploring the unknown.

The worst part is the unknown. The pain of being alone, the loneliness, is familiar. You've dealt with that. You understand it. But loving someone, risking everything, is unknown. There's no way to know how bad it's going to be. You barely survive the pain of being alone, so how can you deal with anything worse? So you don't bother to try.

She's never know because now the store was infested with cheerleaders.

apartment? There was so much she didn't know, so much she wanted to learn but wouldn't let herself

She took a step forward, and so did the unknown woman. Suddenly realization and relief came upon her in equal measures; "It is a mirror! Oh! How foolish! How foolish! To be afraid of my own reflection!" She was so relieved she almost laughed out loud, but then she paused; it had not been foolish to be frightened, not foolish at all; there had been no mirror in that corner until now.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much.

She was pretty sure whatever had made the things hadn't been human.

You are lost the instant you know what the result will be.

Lo desconocido es una abstracción; lo conocido, un desierto; pero lo conocido a medias, lo vislumbrado, es el lugar perfecto para hacer ondular deseo y alucinación

La religión contesta, a su modo, problemas insoslayables que son también los de la filosofía y la ciencia, no frecuentadas por el hombre común. Por otra parte, los científicos no dan respuesta a las preguntas últimas, y las religiones están imposibilitadas de comprobar sus conclusiones y suplantan la carencia de datos reales con mitos y fantasías que calman no solo el temor ante lo desconocido, sino también la necesidad insaciable de

La versión que el veterano improvisó era tan real como puede ser un dinosaurio visto a través del ojo de la cerradura de la cueva antediluviana: los pedazos muy precisos y detallados; el animal, desconocido, hipotético.

I do not know where my life has gone.

I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality as it is, including the acceptance of the unknown. An interesting way to understand the difference is to use the words interchangeably in the same sentence: I believe in Santa Claus. I have faith in Santa Claus. Belief can impede spiritual unfoldment; faith is supremely necessary for it.

I'm intrigued with the idea of surrender not as defeat or loss, as it is frequently thought of, but as a positive, intuitive way of living, a power that grows as you develop trust in the moment as well as in change and the unknown. Contrary to common stereotypes that equate surrender with weakness, I'm presenting it as a way to gain mastery of your life, not give up power.

The world is full of places I haven't been.

Child, you're just flying blind, and it's okay. That's how life is, darlin'. We're all flying blind.