One has to, for oneself, find out the significance of knowledge and freedom from knowledge. Knowledge can be repetitive, modified, can change itself and add to itself, but it is never creative. If I function according to the knowledge, information and accumulation that I’ve gathered all through my life, it becomes a pattern, a routine, a terribly boring thing. Realising that life is rather insignificant because I have knowledge and it doesn’t give me freedom, or anything, I substitute knowledge for a significance. I try to find significance in life or give to life a different significance other than the knowledge I’ve got.
From Talk to a Small group 2, Rome, 24 October 1965