>The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.Did he read Kant?
wrong kind of autism
>>24972028gives me>We have now not only traversed the region of the pure understanding, and carefully surveyed every part of it, but we have also measured it, and assigned to everything therein its proper place. But this land is an island, and enclosed by nature herself within unchangeable limits. It is the land of truth (an attractive word), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the region of illusion, where many a fog-bank, many an iceberg, seems to the mariner, on his voyage of discovery, a new country, and while constantly deluding him with vain hopes, engages him in dangerous adventures, from which he never can desist, and which yet he never can bring to a termination.vibes.
LOVECRAFT WAS A KANTIAN WTFUUUUUUUUUUUU
>>24972037Kant uses rich language, but he's really just describing the system of thought to a certain limit. Lovecraft is doomposting with all those value judgments.I wouldn't be surprised if Lovecraft read Kant. He is only the high point of German Idealism, after all.
HELP ME KANT I'M GOING INSANE AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
