Blond on secular knowledge

Anyone who wishes to hold on to a finite account of cognition, in short anyone who would hold to a secular epistemology, will recognise, to use the Hegel of Glauben und Wissen, ‘something higher above itself from which it is self-excluded’. This situation (whether acknowledged or not) has produced in all subsequent secular thought a relationship with the higher which can perhaps only be described as sublime.

Philip Blond, Post-secular Philosophy: Between Philosophy and Theology. Routledge,  s.8