The pursuit of understanding is an end in itself, and the horizon of knowledge always eludes us.

Evidence

Unreachable Horizon: Philosophy of Perpetual Uncertainty (Medium)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Life is full of unfathomable mysteries that elude understanding. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 374; As the island of knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance. — The Island of Knowledge: Science and the Meaning of Life; We exist neither in closed horizons nor within a horizon that is unique; we must reject both the assumption of absolute knowledge and the assumption of objectivity. — Fusion of horizons (+5 more)

Related

• We exist neither in closed horizons nor within a horizon that is unique; we must reject both the assumption of absolute knowledge and the assumption of objectivity. (similarity 0.85)
• The horizon is constantly moving, offering short bursts of validation but never final arrival. (similarity 0.83)
• As the island of knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance. (similarity 0.82)
• Claiming we may never fully understand phenomena differs from claiming they can never be explained physically, and the explanatory gap is narrowing daily. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Knowing more sometimes shrinks the sense of the unknown rather than expanding it. #complicates (0.75) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1203
• The feeling that systematic knowledge is impossible stems from uncontrollable modern events, not epistemology #complicates (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 19