Line #5 Quotes/TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow


1	->Airfare and hotel costs: $200\
2	Bribing the museum guards to let you meet the curator: $150, and a little bit of sanity.\
3	Purchasing scripts from the curator: $23.42 apiece, and probably permanent traumatization.\
4	Suitcase with a secret compartment: $75.\
5	Tricking the high school drama department into performing ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'': '''[[BrownNote Priceless.]]'''
6	-->There are some things man was not meant to know.\
7	[[MemeticMutation For everything else, there's HasturCard. (c)]]
8	----
9
10	'''From Literature/TheBible:'''
11
12	->"And I know how such a man--whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows--was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak."'
13	-->-- [[Literature/BookOfCorinthians 2 Corinthians 12:3-4]]
14
15	->"When the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. But I heard a voice from Heaven saying: Keep secret what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down."
16	-->-- [[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation 10:4]] (NLT)
17
18	->"Seek not the things that are too high for thee"
19	-->-- Sirach 3:22
20
21	[[AC:Fan Works]]
22	->''"As any science fiction movie will tell you, there are Some Things That Man Is Not Meant to Know. This weapon will help you kill those things."''
23	-->-- '''Demonica''', ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
24
25	->''"Using the arrows" would've sounded like gibberish just a couple of minutes ago, but it was like he gained a new power from the incantation. It was like how people's [[YourHeadAsplode heads would explode]] in [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraft]]'s stories because they've learned of unspeakable things (except, y'know, his head wasn't exploding).''
26	-->-- ''Fanfic/TwoIdiots''
27
28	->''There are places on this planet humanity was not meant to see. Buried deep under the most ancient of mountains, and thrust high by the tallest peaks into the sky. Guarded by spirits, wards, and warnings to keep the foolish from toying with such great powers. For millions of years, the barriers held, and this small, rocky world, floated unnoticed, and undisturbed in the vast void of space.\
29	But now. Now this little earth shines like a beacon. It shines with the promise of power, treasure, and glory. It will not be long before they from the stars will come to stake their claim. Let’s see if they can keep it. And for how long.''
30	-->-- ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens''
31
32	[[AC:Film]]
33	->'''Sallah:''' Indy, there is something that troubles me.\
34	'''Indiana Jones:''' What is it?\
35	'''Sallah:''' The Ark. If it is there, at Tanis, then it is something that man was not meant to disturb. Death has always surrounded it. It is not of this earth.
36	-->-- ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''
37
38	->'''Eddie:''' Yeah, well, he never should've kept such an insane secret, man.\
39	'''Venom:''' We all have a past, Eddie.\
40	'''Eddie:''' What, are you… you hiding stuff from me?\
41	'''Venom:''' 80 billion light-years of hive knowledge across universes would explode your tiny little brain.\
42	'''Eddie:''' What-what does that even mean, man?
43	-->-- ''Film/VenomLetThereBeCarnage''
44
45	->'''[[Creator/WernerHerzog Werner:]]''' ''<listening to the recording that captured Timothy's and Amy's last moments>'' Can you turn it off?\
46	''<Beat>''\
47	'''Werner:''' Jewel, you must never listen to this.\
48	'''Palovak:''' I know, Werner, I'm never going to.\
49	'''Werner:''' And you must never look at the photos I've seen at the coroner's office.\
50	'''Palovak:''' I will never look at them.\
51	'''Werner:''' Yeah. ''<holds Palovak's hands>''\
52	'''Palovak:''' They say it was bad. Now you know why no one's gonna hear it.\
53	'''Werner:''' I think you should not keep it. You should destroy it. I think that's what you should do, because it will be the white elephant in your room all your life.
54	-->-- ''Film/GrizzlyMan''
55
56	[[AC:Literature]]
57	->''"Some things are mysteries not because they are impossible to understand, but because when they stood up and said "Get out," the sensible people all did as they were told. Not everything needs solving."''
58	-->-- '''Alice Healy''', ''Literature/InCryptid: Survival Horror''
59
60	->If you find yourself becoming curious about the nature and origins of [[WizardingSchool the magical powers you are slowly and very, very painfully cultivating]], remember this famous anecdote about the English philosopher [[Creator/BertrandRussell Bertrand Russell]]. Russell once gave a public lecture on the structure of the universe. Afterward he was approached by a woman who told him that he was a very clever young man but much mistaken in his thinking, because everyone knew that [[FlatWorld the world was flat]] and [[TurtleIsland sat on the back of a turtle]]. When Russell asked her what the turtle was standing on, she replied, "You're very clever, young man, very clever. But it's turtles all the way down!" The woman was wrong about the world, of course, but she would have been quite right if she'd been talking about magic. Great mages have wasted their lives trying to get at the root of magic. It is a futile pursuit, not much fun and occasionally quite hazardous. Because the further down you go, the bigger and scalier the turtles get, with sharper and sharper beaks. [[HereThereBeDragons Until eventually they start looking less like turtles and more like dragons.]]
61	-->-- ''Literature/TheMagicians''
62
63	->Keep you all copies made of [[TomeOfEldritchLore this Latin text]] chained and locked. Let no man who reads it speak of its contents, and let no man who knows of it reveal its existence to the ignorant, who are unfit to carry so grave a burden. Before God and his angels, may the soul be damned of him who seeks to practice what is written in these leaves, for he has damned himself by the mere temptation to so horrible an act of defilement. Better his eyes were put out with glowing coals from the fire and his lips sewn tight with flaxen thread than he should read aloud the words in this book written in [[BlackSpeech the forgotten tongue]] that was never meant to be spoken by the sons of Adam; but only by [[EldritchAbomination the others who have no mouths and who dwell in the shadows between the stars]].
64	-->--'''Olaus Wormius,''' ''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Necronomicon]]: The Wanderings of Alhazred'', by Donald Tyson
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66	[[AC:Live-action TV]]
67	->''"They say he was always volunteering for deathbed scans. I guess he wanted to know what was on the other side. They say he was in there, in someone's mind, when they died. And he went too deep. Saw more than anyone should ever see. And when the door closed, the rest of him — maybe the best of him — never came back."''
68	-->-- '''Lyta''' on Alfred Bester, ''Series/BabylonFive'' ("The Paragon of Animals")
69
70	->''"The Final Frontier has some boundaries that are not meant to be crossed."''
71	-->-- '''Captain Janeway''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Omega Directive"
72
73	[[AC:Music]]
74	->''"Who do we think we are?\
75	Everything plays a part,\
76	There are some things we are never meant to know."''
77	-->-- '''Music/RobCantor''', "Never Meant To Know", Music/TallyHall
78
79	->''There are some places we should not go\
80	There are some answers we need not know''
81	-->-- '''Music/MiracleOfSound''', "DNA"
82
83	[[AC:Poetry]]
84	->"Long life to the king! And enjoy him well\
85	Who here breathes in the rosy light;\
86	But under there it is terrible;\
87	O tempt not the Gods, nor their warning slight,\
88	And never, O never desire to see\
89	What they've graciously hid in night from thee."
90	-->-- '''The Diver''', "The Diver", by Friedrich Schiller (1797) (transl. John S. Dwight)
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92	[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
93	->''"Knowledge is cruel. It will break your heart and test your allegiances. Are you certain you want this curse?"''
94	-->-- '''Kruphix, God of Horizons''', ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''
95
96	->''Learning things man was not meant to know is our job. We learn them so you don't have to.''
97	-->-- Journeyman Wizard FlavorText, ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay''
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99	[[AC:Video Games]]
100	->There are worlds beyond this one, worlds as we've never seen. Nor can we! Our eyes do not open far enough. Try it! Try holding your eyes open! You can try holding them open as much as you want, but you'll ''never'' see, never, ''ever'' see the world beyond the veil... the Veil of Reality. It's there to protect ''us'' from ''them''... the Ancients... the Darkness... that which we ''cannot'' understand. ''Nor should we''. Welcome the oblivion of ignorance! For to have knowledge... is to be ''damned!''
101	-->-- '''Dr. Maximillian Roivas''', ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness''
102
103	->Part of what we do on Earth is for your own protection. There are parasites. Creatures who dwell Beyond. They have names, but you do not know them. They would like to find you, but they are blind to your presence... unless you show yourselves [...] [[IgnoranceIsBliss In a way, ignorance is your armor, your best protection]]. They cannot see you now. They cannot smell you. Much of our work with your people involved making you invisible... changing your smell. If I tell you more, you will look where you could never look before and while you are looking you can and will be seen. ''[[CosmicHorrorStory You do not want to be seen.]]''
104	-->-- '''The Arilou''', ''VideoGame/StarControl''
105
106	->Knowledge is a city wall built stone by stone. But what waits in the darkness beyond the walls? What need would we have for a fortress, except that we had something to fear?
107	-->-- ''VideoGame/CultistSimulator''
108
109	->You learned a fraction of the secrets the ancient world holds... But even that is more than what is meant for human ears.
110	-->-- ''VideoGame/FearAndHunger'', "Ending B - The older one"
111
112	[[AC:Visual Novels]]
113	->Those who can believe in paltry things like human wisdom and valor... are those lucky innocents who have not looked into the abyss. Koji can no longer share their blessed ignorance. He knows. He has been defiled by the insanity called truth, and he will never believe again. If he has been poisoned, as Ryoko's ghost said, then that poison is none other than the truth itself. Just as pure oxygen is harmful to the body, the naked truth has the power to destroy men's minds. Only by diluting it with lies and taking it in small doses can humans maintain a healthy soul.
114	-->-- ''VisualNovel/TheSongOfSaya''
115
116	[[AC:Web Original]]
117	->''"Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know."''
118	-->-- ''{{Website/Cracked}}''
119
120	->''"Human beings fill in blanks with imagination, and when faced with superior force those blanks are invariably painted black. As much as we want to believe in angels, I think most of us are afraid that [[DevilButNoGod those higher powers are exclusively demonic]]. This speaks to the fragility of the human condition. In the end, this world kills us all."''
121	-->-- '''[[http://secretsunjr.blogspot.com/2013/02/mib-ufo-virtual-reality-and-reality.html Christopher Loring Knowles]]'''
122
123	->''"The essential innovation of Creator/HPLovecraft is to imagine the moment of religious ecstasy as a negative phenomenon. Paul, on the road to Damascus, is given a vision not of Christ's forgiveness, but of the opposite. Instead of knowing one's holy and sacred place in the universe, one is confronted by the supreme meaninglessness of one's own existence. Or worse, in the absolute darkest case, one is seen and recognized by God, but hated. Every narrow escape and lucky break you've ever had is a mere vagary of pure chance, while every harrowing experience and trial you've suffered is the active intervention of a universe that wants you to suffer... It's not safe to assume you're going to like the innermost secrets of the universe. In fact, if you were going to like them, the universe probably wouldn't go to such lengths to keep them from you. The fact that the universe has helpfully placed 'Danger: Beware of Shub-Niggrauth' signs throughout itself to aid people in this has had a remarkably minimal effect on actual human behavior with regards to this issue. "''
124	-->-- '''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2010/09/audient-void-casino-kid-and-casino-kid.html El Sandifer]]'''
125
126	->''[DATA EXPUNGED]''
127	-->-- Website/SCPFoundation
128
129	->'''Commissar:''' Do these [[OurOrksAreDifferent orks]] seem smarter, or...?\
130	'''Imperial Guardsman:''' Well, we managed to capture an ork and he said:\
131	'''Ork Prisoner:''' Wez been writ'n red coz red makez ya go fasta so our boss said "OI, MAYBE ITD MAKE YA GITS LERN FASTA!" soz we wrote in red n now wez smata n we almost stopped fight'n to contemplate life but it got Barbog all depressed n he [[DrivenToSuicide krumped 'imself]] so nowz da boss says we cant read no more.
132	-->-- A ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK2UB_metFU fan comic]]
133
134	->Obligatory don't-read-the-manga,-it-ruins-the-show-by-making-a-complete-180-from-everything-you-loved-about -it comment\
135	The worst thing about warning people is that [[ForbiddenFruit it ends up making them curious]] and they find out anyway.
136	-->--'''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/2nxd0y/spoilers_probably_watching_usagi_drop_thoughts/ A Reddit User]]''' on the infamous ending of ''Manga/BunnyDrop''
137
138	[[AC:Western Animation]]
139	->Perhaps there are some things man was never meant to tamper with.
140	-->-- ArcWords, ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', ''Notes From The Underground''
141
142	[[AC:Real Life]]
143	->[[LettersToTheEditor Next letter,]] very different tack, no less sublime, it begins thusly: "''Voodoo is very real!'' And very dangerous, often destroying those who practice it." ''Often''. Not talking about freak occurrences, right? On the way here tonight, I see five people practising voodoo; three of them were destroyed by it! Look at the statistics!\
144	"With any luck, Huntley will destroy himself by opening a doorway to a world beyond the knowledge of mere man!" ...That's a heavy thing to hope for, ain't it? And then to send it to ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Sun]]''? It is not a metaphysical newspaper! This is a proposition that, if it came from [[Creator/DanteAlighieri Dante]], would confuse you.\
145	"D'ya know what I hope happens to Ian Huntley, right?! I'll tell you what I hope happens! I hope he destroys himself -", "Oh, how?", "This is the good bit! - by opening a doorway to a world beyond the knowledge of mere man! A world so baffling and complex that whilst man and Huntley can perceive it - he has, after all, just opened a doorway to it - he can never ''know'' it! He can never integrate it into his understanding of what is, because he is a mere man! If he were a ''[[{{Pun}} meerkat]]''... better vantage point!"
146	-->-- '''Creator/RussellBrand''', ''The Secret Policeman's Ball 2006''
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148	->''In the first class there was Robot-as-Menace. I don't have to explain that overmuch. Such stories were a mixture of "clank-clank" and "aarghh" and "There are some things man was not meant to know." After a while they palled dreadfully and I couldn't stand them.''
149	-->-- '''Creator/IsaacAsimov''', ''The Complete Robot''
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