The Answer: "[T]he answer is the thing that will put a stop to curiosity better than anything. If anybody is at all curious, you can stuff an answer down their throat or into their ears and that will stop them doing any further thinking." — WR Bion
By Awe: "The question is not what you look at, but what you see." — Thoreau
"Cornell speaks of being 'plunged in world of happiness in which every triviality is imbued with significance'." — Charles Simic, We Comprehend by Awe, Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell (1992)
That citation is from Terence's The Eunuch:
'nihilo plus agas / quam si des operam ut cum ratione insanias'
'If you try to impose certainty on uncertainty by reason, you'd achieve no more than if you set about going insane by reason.'
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@Lasermazer@bzogrammer Thank you. There's so much literature on Pierce and then there's his work which one begins to quote by passage after a while. Umberto Eco managed to make delightful use of him as just one example in one of the fields he contributed: semiotics.
Without knowing: "I seem to speak, it is not I, about me, it is not about me … What am I to do, what shall I do? How proceed? By aporia? … I say aporia without knowing what it means.” — Samuel Beckett, Unnamable
RIP Dale Pendell (1947-2018). Like Jenny Diski and Oliver Sacks, he wrote about his dying. He called his notes on dying Pharmako/Thanatos, where Pharmako is the gift and the poison, and Thanatos is our end. https://t.co/T9F2Bin3HM
It must be abstract: "The intelligence that is attributed to a machine abstracts from the fact that the intelligence of a living being is possessed, not just expressed." — Paul Weiss