Emet is Emet
There is a difference between an intellectual venture and knowing Truth. Both tax the mind to its ultimate extreme. In both, the mind eventually finds a dead end, a foundation point where it must surrender saying, “This is so, because it is. “An intellectual venture is when it is up to you to reject or accept those axioms — because the results are beautiful or because they are unpleasing; because they are elegant or they are convoluted; because their corollaries fit so nicely into everything else you know or they are just too radical.