If to know is what you want – and knowledge must be desired – study metaphysics, study theology.

If divine union is what you want, and you succeed in attaining it, you will know a great deal more, but precisely in the measure that you go beyond knowledge – and in such a dispossessed fashion that you should in truth say, “I was reduced to nothing and I knew no more.” Beyond knowing? That is to say, in love; in love transilluminated by the Spirit, compenetrated by intelligence and wisdom. “For now my exercise is in loving alone.”
Jacques Maritain (1882–1973)