omniscience, n.Definitions

Omniscience (n.) may ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠begin in the child's dread that its parents know all its thoughts without being told.

Omniscience (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the all-seeing eye of God that searches the heart and pitilessly exposes every cranny of the soul — a reflection of one's own insight into the total reality of one's being.

Omniscience (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠more monstrous than marvellous: a kind of intellectual elephantiasis, the analytical mind magnified to colossal size.

Omniscience (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠up as fish-eyes in the alchemist's vessel, the Lord's seven planetary eyes, hundred-eyed Argus, the sleepless dragon at the Pole — and is finally equated with Time.

Omniscience (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not knowing everything but understanding the whole process of knowing — seeing that every "known" is carved out by ignore-ance.