Fences

Only nomads and explorers know: the world cannot be explained with rigid boundaries. The space of life is never constant. Life is not built with fences.

But Kant, the philosopher, was not a nomad. He who compared human knowledge to 'a small land with many boundaries' was born in the town of Knigsberg in the north east of Germany and died in the same place. From 1724 to 1804from when he was a newborn babe until he was in his coffinhe did not step one meter outside this town near the Baltic Sea. He was a stay-at-home.

December 16, 2014

Only nomads and explorers know: the world cannot be explained with rigid boundaries. The space of life is never constant. Life is not built with fences.

But Kant, the philosopher, was not a nomad. He who compared human knowledge to 'a small land with many boundaries' was born in the town of Knigsberg in the north east of Germany and died in the same place. From 1724 to 1804from when he was a newborn babe until he was in his coffinhe did not step one

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