All inquiry, whatever its subject, has as its final object the matter of how to go about living.
Knowingness is murderous of wonder and of insight, and ultimately it does a violent disservice to that which it sought to serve.
Our most basic choice, the one that grounds all the others, is this: Do we attend closely to the business of our choices, or do we flee from them, in arrogance, or fear, or boredom—or some combination of all three? That´s the only ultimate purpose or meaning that we can make sense of. But it´s enough.
