“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
Source: City of the Beasts
“Ultimate explanation no longer means only a story that encompasses everything.”
New Theories of Everything (2007), Ch. 1, p. 6
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Halford E. Luccock
(1885–1960) American Methodist minister
Keeping Life Out of Confusion (1938)
Context: We ought to recognize that uncertainty of mind is not all a bad thing. It is a sign that your mind is still alive, still sensitive. If you are not at all confused in this day you are dead mentally and spiritually.
There is of course the peace of the cemetery. If you want that you can have it. But you will pay for such complacent serenity with blind eyes which do not see the world's fear and agony; with deaf ears, into which the still sad music of humanity never comes; with deadened nerves and unsensitized conscience.
We will never be brought to confusion, even in such a baffling and muddled world as ours, if we have a faith in a God of love as the ultimate power in the universe. The words "God is love" have this deep meaning: that everything that is against love is ultimately doomed and damned.
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“I don’t know. There isn’t always an explanation for everything.”
Variant: There isnt always an explanation for everything.
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.”
Michael Moorcock
(1939) English writer, editor, critic
Source: Short fiction, To Rescue Tanelorn... (1962), p. 472
