An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

This has a cost. You can know things only as they appear to you, never as they are in themselves. The same limit keeps freedom, God, and a future life safe from disproof. “I must, therefore, abolish knowledge, to make room for belief.”

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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