The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Interpretation
The pursuit of knowledge is limited to existing understanding and cannot reach the unknown.
Jiddu Krishnamurti emphasizes that the process of searching for knowledge is inherently restricted to the realm of what we already know. He suggests that any efforts to discover the unknown are futile if they are based on prior knowledge, indicating that true understanding requires a different approach, one that transcends our established frameworks and beliefs.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about the limitations of scientific inquiry.
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The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
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Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.
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[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.
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