Знание
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Who was I? Who am I now? And what will I be? “Neither I know this, nor anyone who is richer in wisdom than me.” As if covered with a cloud, I wander hither and thither; Even in a dream I don’t see what I would want, because everyone on whom lies a dark cloud of plump flesh is both low and mired in delusions. Is he wiser than me who is more deceived than others by the deceitfulness of his own heart, which is ready to give an answer to everything (2)?
A skill is some kind of permanent quality, and I call the product of a skill an action.
Art is the established order of action based on experience, and such a skill, from which it is impossible to deviate, is called knowledge (2).
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