Obscurity

Our inability to comprehend reality

January 23rd 2025

If nothing has prepared you to understand the thoughts of a great philosopher or scientist, however much light they may shed on certain questions, it will all remain obscure for you. In fact, it could be said that the more luminous their ideas, the more obscure they will seem to those who are incapable of grasping them. In this context, the words ‘obscurity’ and ‘darkness’ are not used to define an objective reality, but to express our own inability to comprehend it. And what we call ‘light’ corresponds to a reality that is more within our reach.
We can never know, then, whether darkness is truly dark, or whether it simply appears that way to us because of our inability to see.*
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