“ Her tragedy hadn't made her more approachable, and in fact lent her the unknowable quality of a person who had suffered more than could be expressed. Jeffrey Eugenides
“ It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realist… E. Haldeman-Julius
“ Religion, by its very nature as an untestable belief in undetectable beings and an unknowable afterlife, disables our reality checks. It ends the conversation. It cuts off inquiry: not only factual in… Greta Christina
“ Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's. Iris Murdoch
“ One can be too ingenious in trying to search out the truth. Sometimes one must simply respect its veiled face. Of course this is a love story. Iris Murdoch
“ Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one. Iris Murdoch
“ I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable. John Dufresne
“ It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction. Edgar Allan Poe
“ And so Rebecca consigned herself to, not ignorance, but a judicious incuriosity: she decided, for the time being, to live with the constant, cryptic reminders that the scope of another person's soul c… Dexter Palmer
“ Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. Robert G. Ingersoll
