Unknowable

Thus, if the Unknowable is a cause of phenomena it ceases to be the unconditioned and becomes part of the phenomenal order.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

If we are to talk about causes at all, we can only say "The Unknowable is the cause of all things."'

Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall

His category of the Unknowable is a convenient receptacle for anything one may choose to put into it, because no rational statement concerning its contents is possible.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Mr. Herbert Spencer's doctrine of the Unknowable is a doctrine of so much speculative importance, that it behoves all students of philosophy to have clear views respecting its character and implications.

A Candid Examination of Theism George John Romanes 1871

In other words, the development of the emotional and the intellectual sides of their nature have been unequal, and for these the "Unknowable" has simply served as a peg on which to hang religious feelings that have been robbed of all intellectual support.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

A very obvious criticism of number one is in affirming a consciousness of an "Unknowable," its quality of unknowableness is annihilated.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

"Unknowable" (with which we deal fully later), a further help was given by his destruction of an Atheism that had no existence.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

In other words, the "Unknowable" is a pure abstraction, having no organic connection with the Synthetic Philosophy, or indeed with any philosophy of value.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

Still there remains cause for wonder that this "Unknowable" should ever have been taken as affording foundation for the belief in deity.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen

And but for the help it has been supposed to give the belief in god, the "Unknowable" would only have ranked as a harmless speculation of no value to anyone or to anything.

Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative Chapman Cohen