Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Our ignorance will always remain greater than our knowledge.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Plough not the seas, sow not the sands,Leave off your idle pain;Seek other mistress for your minds,Love's service is in vain.

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

A foolish dog barks at a flying bird

No act of man can claim to be more than an attempt, not even science.

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

The future is not Google-able.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.

The Way is ever nameless.