Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]
Stichwörter: truth knowledge judgment arrogance presumption ridicule omniscience pomposity preface-to-brissot-s-address
It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the animal kingdom, and on which each individual of his species must ever again appear as a helpless infant... is a direct fulfilment of all, or of most, of the dearest wishes in his fairy-tales. All these possessions he has acquired through culture. Long ago he formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods. One may say, therefore, that these gods were the ideals of his culture. Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself. But only, it is true, in the way that ideals are usually realized in the general experience of humanity. Not completely; in some respects not at all, in others only by halves. Man has become a god by means of artificial limbs, so to speak, quite magnificent when equipped with all his accessory organs; but they do not grow on him and they still give him trouble at times... Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more.
Sigmund FreudStichwörter: science prediction future humanity fulfillment mankind culture gods desire wish fairy-tale omniscience forbidden omnipotence
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Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
Stichwörter: omniscience
Yet it is unassailably true that so long as we lack omniscience and do not know all of the future, all our generalizations are fallible or only probable. And the history of human error shows that a general consensus, or widespread and unquestioned feeling of certainty, does not preclude the possibility that the future may show us to be in error.
Morris R. CohenStichwörter: error certainty omniscience generalizations fallible probable
We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as the cause of the state that is to follow. An intelligence knowing all the forces acting in nature at a given instant, as well as the momentary positions of all things in the universe, would be able to comprehend in one single formula the motions of the largest bodies as well as the lightest atoms in the world, provided that its intellect were sufficiently powerful to subject all data to analysis; to it nothing would be uncertain, the future as well as the past would be present to its eyes. The perfection that the human mind has been able to give to astronomy affords but a feeble outline of such an intelligence.
Pierre-Simon LaplaceStichwörter: science intelligence certainty past present determinism free-will nature time mind universe naturalism space physics comprehension eyes perfection astronomy omniscience data human-mind motion analysis formula lack-of-free-will
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
Criss JamiStichwörter: humor knowledge god time work patience humility funny understanding prayer metaphor waiting obedience hard-work cute timing faithfulness omniscience misunderstanding impatience literal praying cookie figurative prudence bigger-picture foreknowledge
It's easy to be omniscient when you've done it all before.
Audrey NiffeneggerStichwörter: omniscience
There is no such thing as a secret mind or secret me apart from the Lord.
Kevin ThomanStichwörter: thoughts omniscience
And yet viewing several depictions of even an imaginary city, is enlightening in a way," Leibniz said. "Each painter can view the city from only one standpoint at a time, so he will move about the place, and paint it from a hilltop on one side, then a tower on the other, then from a grand intersection in the middle--all in the same canvas. When we look at the canvas, then, we glimpse in a small way how God understands the universe--for he sees it from every point of view at once. By populating the world with so many different minds, each with its own point of view, God gives us a suggestion of what it means to be omniscient.
Neal StephensonStichwörter: omniscience point-of-view
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Dejan StojanovicStichwörter: knowledge poetry power literature poets quotes omniscience omnipotence poetry-quotes literature-quotes dejan-stojanovic
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