This book explores the limits of perception, the traps of intuition and prejudice, the illusions of objectivity, and the chains of history that bind every act of thought. Here, knowledge is not a shining monument but a lantern in fog-its light flickering, its shadows multiplying. Creation, far from pure, emerges as a paradox: invention born of fragments, originality stitched from memory, progress inseparable from destruction. In these pages, philosophy meets satire, science confronts ambition, and art wrestles with the weight of necessity. Each chapter unfolds the uneasy truth that what we call "truth" is always provisional, that every masterpiece carries the watermark of its age, and that the human mind, however flawed, refuses to surrender its pursuit. This is not a book of answers-it is a book of questions sharpened into mirrors. It reminds us that we are creatures condemned never to grasp the whole, yet destined never to stop searching.
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