“ … Lessing, the most honest theoretical man, dared to announce that he cared more for the search after truth than for truth itself — and this revealed the fundamental secret of science, to the astonishment, and indeed anger, of the scientific community. Beside this isolated insight, born of an excess of honesty if not of exhuberance, there is, to be sure, a profound illusion that first saw the light of the world in the person of Socrates: the unshakable faith that thought, using the thread of causality, can penetrate the deepest abysses of being, and that thought is capable not only of knowing being, but even of correcting it. This sublime metaphysical illusion accompanies science as an instinct and leads science again and again to the limits at which it must turn into art — which is really the aim of this mechanism. … “Socrates embraces the world of appearances,” Nietzche from The Birth of Tragedy. #theknown #morethanappearances #artandlivingenergy #abstractart #oiloncanvas #abstracttravelpainting original painted in #paris. #itsthequestions #journey #itsthesearch https://www.instagram.com/p/Btq3qIxBY3T/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17uzooctxijgp