Sentence examples for godlike knowledge from inspiring English sources
At the instigation of the serpent, the shrewdest of the beasts, who holds out the possibility of attaining godlike knowledge, the woman eats of the fruit of the tree of knowledge and gives some to her husband to eat also.
"But there is a creative force constantly struggling to evolve an executive organ of godlike knowledge and power... and every man and woman born is a fresh attempt to achieve this object".
Goethe's Faust aspires to godlike knowledge and mastery, and then, in disillusionment, to the satisfaction of having a moment to which he would like to say, "Stay awhile, you are so fair". That is what he asks of the Devil, and the whole episode of Gretchen is a hellishly painful illustration of one road that will not lead to its attainment.
Behind Pynchon's vast fictional panoply, behind the excess knowledge relentlessly peddled, you see something less than godlike: a set of urban liberal whines, about Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty, "yups" (yuppies) colonising Manhattan, and the Disneyfication of Times Square; along with political thinking that, at best, occupies "the woowoo end of the spectrum" and at worst seems downright adolescent.
But the knowledge gained seems to have nothing to do with godlike perfection and virtue.
"What makes apocalypse so compelling," explains Quinby, "is its promise of future perfection, eternal happiness, and godlike understanding of life, but it is that very will to absolute power and knowledge that produces its compulsions of violence, hatred, and oppression".
All novelists are godlike.
No Godlike narrator presides.
