The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover more openly the vast extent of our ignorance.
Empiricism, skepticism
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section I, Of the Different Species of Philosophy
1748
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