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But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.
by Elizabeth Gilbert (Novelist, American , born in 1969) keywords: ancient, attendant, back, beings, believe, believed, came, creativity, did, distant, divine, greece, happen, human, ok, reasons, rome, some, source, spirit, then , unknowable You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.
by Elizabeth Gilbert (Novelist, American , born in 1969) keywords: allowing, asking, believe, creative, divine, essence, eternal, fragile, human, just, know, mere, much, mystery, person, psyche, put, responsibility, she, somebody, source, sun, swallow, think, too, unknowable , vessel It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.
by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Theologian, English , born in 1828) keywords: attempting, away, energy, how, know, much, reflect, strange, thrown , unknowable As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
by Abraham Robinson (Mathematician, German , born in 1918) keywords: accept, even, facts, far, idea, know, mathematical, mathematicians, may, minority, only, small, those, true, unknowable, views , which 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.
by Carl Sandburg (Poet, American , born in 1878) topics: Poetry keywords: air, animal, away, barriers, fly, go, how, journal, land, living, made, phantom, poetry, rainbows, script, sea, search, shoot, syllables, telling, unknowable, unknown, wanting , why If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
by Leslie Stephen (Author, English , born in 1832) keywords: atheism, collection, doubt, express, few, god, identified, meaningless, mind, pronounced, state, then, theology, think, unintelligible, unknowable, used, which , words If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
by Leo Strauss (Philosopher, German , born in 1899) keywords: cannot, capacity, highest, man, then, theoretical, things, unknowable, virtue , wisdom
