Faith that tries to transcend knowledge is destroyed by that very attempt

Evidence

As long as faith remains unhesitatingly tied—as friend or foe—to knowledge, it perpetuates the separation in the very course of the struggle to overcome it: its fanaticism is the occasion of its untruth, the objective admission that he who only has faith, for that very reason no longer has it. Bad conscience is its second nature. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 42

Categorization

• APHORISMS: A compressed paradox: holding faith against reason forfeits faith’s own integrity — the believer who insists most on faith alone is the one who has lost it.
• XREF: connects to: The desperate pursuit of meaning systematically destroys the meaning sought.; Possessing the loved one wholly destroys the transcendence that made him lovable — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1875; Revolutionary faith can be incompatible with clear awareness of reality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 196 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The desperate pursuit of meaning systematically destroys the meaning sought.; Possessing the loved one wholly destroys the transcendence that made him lovable — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1875; Revolutionary faith can be incompatible with clear awareness of reality — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 196 (+4 more)