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title: "It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self - not… — H. P. Lovecraft Quote #21 | QuotesBy.net"
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> # It was an All-in-One and One-in-All of limitless being and self - not merely a thing of one Space-Time continuum, but allied to the ultimate animating essence of existence's whole unbounded sweep - the last, utter sweep which has no confines and which outreaches fancy and mathematics alike. It was perhaps that which certain secret cults of earth have whispered of as YOG-SOTHOTH, and which has been a deity under other names; that which the crustaceans of Yuggoth worship as the Beyond-One, and which the vaporous brains of the spiral nebulae know by an untranslatable Sign...

[H. P. Lovecraft](https://quotesby.net/H.-P.-Lovecraft)\#21

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## About this quote

What does it mean?The quote describes an omnipresent entity that transcends space, time, and conventional understanding.In plain termsThere is a being that exists everywhere and beyond normal limits.What can you take from it?Some concepts exceed human comprehension and mathematical definition.

### Where it applies

- studying mythology
- philosophical debate
- theological discussion

### Putting it to work

- writing fantasy
- exploring metaphysics
- cultural study

### Questions to consider

- What exists beyond the limits of mathematics?
- How do we define ultimate reality?

### Another view

Such descriptions are purely fictional and lack empirical basis.

## More from H. P. Lovecraft

1. > Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He kno…

[Permalink to quote \#20](https://quotesby.net/H.-P.-Lovecraft/20/ "Permalink to quote 20")
2. > Four years ago a large part of the civilised world laboured under certain biological fallacies which may, in a sense, be held responsible for the extent and du…

[Permalink to quote \#22](https://quotesby.net/H.-P.-Lovecraft/22/ "Permalink to quote 22")
3. > The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

[Permalink to quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/H.-P.-Lovecraft/19/ "Permalink to quote 19")

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1. > When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

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2. > For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum …

[Carl Sagan](https://quotesby.net/Carl-Sagan)[Carl Sagan quote \#16](https://quotesby.net/Carl-Sagan/16/ "Permalink to quote 16")
3. > ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is--nothing.

[Arthur Schopenhauer](https://quotesby.net/Arthur-Schopenhauer)[Arthur Schopenhauer quote \#19](https://quotesby.net/Arthur-Schopenhauer/19/ "Permalink to quote 19")

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