A Quote by Nicholas of Cusa

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].

Nicholas of Cusa

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External Internal Means Rational Something Soul Thing

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Nicholas of Cusa
1401 - August 11, 1464

The pictures remind you of something that can never be recaptured, the time is gone, the only thing you know is the present. That's all that's knowable and even the present isn't knowable. The present becomes the past... so you really don't know anything.

William Shatner

We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

Giordano Bruno

The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Yet things are knowable! They are knowable, because, being from one, things correspond. There is a scale: and the correspondence of heaven to earth, of matter to mind, of the part to the whole, is our guide. As there is a science of stars, called astronomy; and science of quantities, called mathematics; a science of qualities, called chemistry; so there is a science of sciences,--I call it Dialectic,--which is the Intellect discriminating the false and the true.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don't understand. Internal is the human heart.

John Carpenter

The knowledge of everything knowable is not yet wisdom

Franz Rosenzweig

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

Jimmy Wales

The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.

Plotinus

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

Woody Allen

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

William Poundstone

Branding is the art of becoming knowable, likable and trustable.

John Jantsch

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.