“Reason, my dear fellow, is the most naïve of all superstitions. That, at least, has been generally conceded in our age. You suffer from the popular delusion of believing that things can be understood. You do not grasp the fact that the universe is a solid contradiction.”
“A contradiction of what?”
“Of itself.”
“How … how’s that?”
“The duty of thinkers is not to explain, but to demonstrate that nothing can be explained. The purpose of philosophy is not to seek knowledge, but to prove that knowledge is impossible to man.”
“But when we prove it, what’s going to be left?”
“A contradiction of what?”
“Of itself.”
“How … how’s that?”
“The duty of thinkers is not to explain, but to demonstrate that nothing can be explained. The purpose of philosophy is not to seek knowledge, but to prove that knowledge is impossible to man.”
“But when we prove it, what’s going to be left?”
“Instinct.”
- Ayn Rand, in Atlas Shrugged
(Photo taken in Madakaripura, January 2009)
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very nice photo :-)
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