What he himself is, whether he is or is not, he does not know so much as this.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.

He had come so far from himself that I don't
think he knew who he was anymore.

I am better off than he is, — for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is, — for he knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.

None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.

None knows the reason why this curse
Was sent on him, this love of making verse.

The apostle denies that anyone actually knows Christ, who has not learned to put off the old man, corrupt with deceitful lusts, and to put on Christ.

Well, although I do not suppose that either of us know anything really beautiful & good, I am better off than he is- for he knows nothing & thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.

concerning God, we cannot grasp what he is, but only what he is not, and how other beings stand in relation to him.”18 (206)

The man that we love, regardless of the exalted state of both his spirit and his soul, remains a priest in his robes who only vaguely guesses what he is celebrating.

I am likely to be wiser than he to this small, extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know