Sun Ra Quotes

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

Not to be limited by the greatest and yet to be contained in the tiniest—this is the divine

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

The unknown is not measurable by the known. Time cannot measure the timeless, the eternal, that immensity which has no beginning and no end... when we try to measure something which is not measurable, we only get caught in words.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.

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