Knowing everything isn’t knowing
Publié le 27/10/2011
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Knowing everything. Knowing everything is an oxymoron. Indeed, to know is not to know: to know is to know that human being don’t know anything, can’t know anything. To know is to know, understand, or even just admit that humans live and die without knowing anything. Hence, to know is to know that humans will never know much more than nothing.
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And yet this imperfection gives rise to freedom.
The perfect being would see love,
friendship, emotions, unconscious, spontaneity, good news, the certainty of death,
unexpected moments, instincts, the freedom to choose, and all the mistakes.
This
being would contemplate freedom.
It would survey it without tasting it: held
prisoner by its perfection.
In so far as it would know absolutely everything with its
theoretical knowledge, it would know but wouldn’t live.
That is why, to some degrees, even human life is incompatible with absolute
knowledge inasmuch as life is the unknown.
As regards the previous analyses, human being seems to be imperfect and to live
in the unknown.
One may wonder what does the verb “to know” means.
To
know means to have been.
To know is not learning by heart.
It’s to involve us in
life, to have an opinion, to be.
How knowing love otherwise? How knowing life?
So, to know would be to make the world it’s own, feel it, experience it.
Then,
knowing everything seems paradoxical.
Indeed, live is to experience life along the
way.
Live is a perpetual discovery.
And knowing everything condemn to perpetual
melancholy, disillusion.
Knowing everything destine for early death, mind’s death.
Following these considerations “to know” could be interpreted as “to live”.
Because living is learning, is experiencing the world.
Plus, to live is the greatest
present God has given to us; as a result it’s the most important thing human being
possesses.
Just like knowing, in my opinion.
That is why knowing could be living
as God wanted us to be.
With the benefit of hindsight, knowing everything is definitively not knowing.
This may be accounted for by the very fact that only God knows everything.
Human being is unable to know everything - and if he could know everything, he
would not know anything actually.
As I have written previously, human being is born knowing nothing about
anything, he learns, he lives but the more he learns, the more he understands that
knowledge is not an absolute.
Knowing is trying to reckon hints of unknowing.
To know is to not know.
That’s why - logically - to know everything would be to
don’t know anything..
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