Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.
One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.