In my search for answers to life's questions I experiencedjust what is felt by a man lost in a forest.
He reaches a glade, climbs a tree, and clearly sees thelimitless distance, but sees that his home is not and cannot be
there; then he goes into the dark wood and sees the darkness, butthere also his home is not.
So I wandered n that wood of human knowledge, amid the gleamsof
mathematical and
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experimental science which showed me clear
horizons but in a direction where there could be no home, and alsoamid the darkness of the
abstract sciences where I was immersed in
deeper gloom the further I went, and where I finally convincedmyself that there was, and could be, no exit.
Yielding myself to the bright side of knowledge, I understoodthat I was only diverting my gaze from the question. However
alluringly clear those horizons which opened out before me mightbe, however
alluring it might be to immerse oneself in the
limitless
expanse of those sciences, I already understood that theclearer they were the less they met my need and the less they
applied to my question. "I know," said I to myself, "what science so persistently
tries to discover, and along that road there is no reply to the