“Relative knowledge pertains to the mind and not to the Self. It is therefore illusory and not permanent. Take a scientist, for instance. He formulates a theory that the Earth is round and goes on to prove it on an incontrovertible basis. When he falls asleep the whole idea vanishes; his mind is left a blank. What does it matter whether the world remains round or flat when he is asleep? So you see the futility of all such relative knowledge. One should go beyond relative knowledge and abide in the Self. Real knowledge is such experience, and not apprehension by the mind.”

Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 5 “Letter From an Unknown Hero” (p. 120)

Atrophied Preface
Naked Lunch (1959)

Es giebt keine Selbstkenntniss als die historische. Niemand weiss was er ist, wer nicht weiss was seine Genossen sind.

“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 139

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

My Reviewers Reviewed (lecture from June 27, 1877, San Francisco, CA)

"Rectify the Party's Style of Work" (1942)

Of Superstition.
Attributed to Heraclitus, Frag. 89
Moralia, Others

Language, that is to say, makes progress possible. </SPAN>
Source: Language in Thought and Action (1949), The Pooling of Knowledge, p. 12