Vico’s Road
“As rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them (homo intelligentia fit omnia), this imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them (homo non intelligendo fit omnia). Perhaps the latter proposition is truer than the former, for when man understands he extends his mind and comprehends all things, but when he does not understand he makes things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them.”
Giambattista Vico, Principles of New Science, lifted from the epigraph of No Go the Bogeyman by Marina Warner.