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Unknowable Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
- Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
- For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
More Unknowable Quotes
- Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
- Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable. — Ambrose Bierce
- I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years… — Geraldine Brooks
- Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt… — Martin Amis
- For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A… — Carl Sagan
- All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart… — G. Stanley Hall
- I view it as one of the greatest crimes to shadow the minds of the young with these gloomy superstitions, and with… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the… — Gerhard Richter
- It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama
- Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. — Thornton Wilder
- Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable. — Leonard Bernstein
- It is unknowable how long that conflict [the war in Iraq] will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt… — Donald Rumsfeld