Full Idea
'Comprehending everything' - that would mean abolishing all perspectival relations, that would mean comprehending nothing, mistaking the nature of the knower.
Gist of Idea
Comprehending everything is impossible, because it abolishes perspectives
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 01[114])
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.62
A Reaction
The point here, I take it, is not just that there is too much to comprehend, but that comprehending is partly a subjective matter. Personally I am drawn to the opposite pole, expressed by Spinoza (Idea 4840).
Related Idea
Idea 4840 Reason perceives things under a certain form of eternity [Spinoza]