The Greek word apocalypse means literally discovery, the uncovering or revelation (revealing) of what was hidden from consciousness – sometimes hidden because of our immersion in it.
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity.
— Wittgenstein (PI I.129)
We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.
— source unknown
The veil of habit hides the Firstness of the phenomenon, generalization dissipates the force of discovery, percepts are overgrown with perceptual judgments. Yet ‘there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed.’
It is easier to discover another such a new world as Columbus did, than to go within one fold of this which we appear to know so well; the land is lost sight of, the compass varies, and mankind mutiny; and still history accumulates like rubbish before the portals of nature.
— Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
— George Orwell (1946)