Unknowable Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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