Gnostic Quotes
What’s the meaning of life? Aphorisms, maxims and quotations expressing the paradoxical essence of gnosticism.
Unconscious
"The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions." - Italo Calvino
"The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark, but also light, not only [...]
Understanding
"To understand is to perceive patterns." - Sir Isaiah Berlin
"The highest activity a human being can attain [to is] understanding, because to understand is to be free." - Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
Understanding II
"The caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly." - Timothy Leary
"The smart understand the stupid a lot better than the stupid understand the smart." - Bob Wallace, The Cliché Robot
Underwater
"We are drowning in Information and starving for knowledge." - Rutherford D. Roger
"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." - Sigmund Freud
Uninitiated
"Take a look round, then, and see that none of the uninitiated are listening. Now by the uninitiated I mean: the people who believe in nothing but what they can grasp in their hands, and who will not allow that action or generation or anything invisible can have real existence." - Plato, Theaetetus
Universal Mind
"There is a larger Mind of which the individual mind is only a sub-system." - Gregory Bateson
"If there is a Universal Mind must it be sane?" - Charles Fort
Universe
"If there is nothing wrong with me, maybe there's something wrong with the universe." - Dr. Beverly Crusher
"The crux… is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." - William J. Broad
"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we [...]
Unknown Mind
"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." - Rene Magritte, 1898-1967
"MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt [...]
Unsought
"The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into [...]
