“This world has been connected… tied to the darkness… soon to be completely eclipsed… there is very much to learn… you understand so little… a meaningless effort… one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.”
Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Shiro Amano11
Japanese manga artist 1976Related quotes
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist
Nature and the Greeks (1954)
Context: The scientific world-picture vouchsafes a very complete understanding of all that happens — it makes it just a little too understandable. It allows you to imagine the total display as that of a mechanical clockwork which, for all that science knows, could go on just the same as it does, without there being consciousness, will, endeavor, pain and delight and responsibility connected with it — though they actually are. And the reason for this disconcerting situation is just this: that for the purpose of constructing the picture of the external world, we have used the greatly simplifying device of cutting our own personality out, removing it; hence it is gone, it has evaporated, it is ostensibly not needed.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
F 81
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Simone Weil (1909–1943) French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
Source: Lectures on Philosophy
“People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XV - An Apparition
Context: Hidden behind the horizons, living men unite with machines and fall furiously on space. They do not see their shots. They do not know what they are doing. "You shall not know; you shall not know."
But since the cannonade is returning, they will be fighting here again. All these battles spring from themselves and necessitate each other to infinity! One single battle is not enough, it is not complete, there is no satisfaction. Nothing is finished, nothing is ever finished. Ah, it is only men who die! No one understands the greatness of things, and I know well that I do not understand all the horror in which I am.
“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”
Anne Rice book The Vampire Armand
Source: The Vampire Armand
Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader
Holi Festival, Miami, Florida, on Sunday, April 1978, printed in Divine Times April/May 1978 Volume 7, Number 3
1970s