I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.

Georges Bataille
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The writer, artist and thinker Virginia Woolf argues that knowledge only enslaves us; we become enslaved to the knowledge we possess. We cannot see the world as it is and we cannot create art or ideas that do not conform to the rules of what we know. We may think we can find meaning and creation apart from these rules but, in truth, we cannot.

Source: The Unfinished System Of Nonknowledge

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