Knowing Nothing
by Nicholas of Cusa
"One good man Socrates believed he knew
nothing save that he did not know much.
The very wise Solomon declared all things
difficult, complex, not to be explained.
Another wise man of divine spirit insists
that wisdom — the very seat of understanding —
lies hidden 'from the eyes of the living.'
And likewise, the profound Aristotle,
in the First Philosophy, asserts that — even
with things most apparent in nature — we
encounter the same trouble as a night owl
blinking, straining to look at the sun."
