In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
As long as you still experience the stars as something “above you”, you lack the eye of knowledge.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Nature gives us a dispersed finality. It is a demonology, full of supranatural forces, not one of which is supernatural. On this terrain of knowledge, one must be polytheist.
Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.