“Let's sum up: an unknown number of enemies with unknown capabilities, supported by a gang of madmen, packs of attack animals, and superhumanly intelligent pocket change.”

— Jim Butcher

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American author 1971

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”

G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist

A Utopia of Usurers (1917)

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.”

Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain

Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 5

“By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.”

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer

Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (1070).
Context: By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible. Such a thing is either a quantity or a unique relation, which is only determined by careful examination. What one searches for in the algebraic art are the relations which lead from the known to the unknown, to discover which is the object of Algebra as stated above. The perfection of this art consists in knowledge of the scientific method by which one determines numerical and geometric unknowns.

“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.”

Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis (1915)

“Kojève is the unknown Superior whose dogma is revered, often unawares, by that important subdivision of the "animal kingdom of the spirit" in the contemporary world - the progressivist intellectuals.”

Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) Russian-born French philosopher and statesman

Source: Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit, assembled by Raymond Queneau, edited by Allan Bloom, translated by James H. Nichols, Jr. (1969), Editor's Introduction