Unknowability is the quality of being impossible to know through the intellect.

On the path of knowledge, some aspects of reality are unknowable:

• Existence itself - it cannot be an object of knowledge

• The experiencer - it cannot be known as an object because it is the knower

• The ultimate truth - it transcends all concepts

What is unknowable can be directly experienced but not captured in thought or language.

See also unknowable, negative knowledge, agnosticism.