This man, Socrates, is probably one of the most brilliant men or women that has ever traipsed the earth of this planet and yet he has claimed that he knows absolutely nothing.
This is the burden of knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge is purely for masochists. It is miserable because in gaining knowledge, one allows for the acknowledgement that more and more questions exist. Knowledge is insatiable and true wisdom instills in humans the ability to realize that with further knowledge comes further ignorance. What irony. Knowledge breeds ignorance because knowledge is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
What a beautiful, powerful and frustrating concept.
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