Auguries of Innocence Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes

Blake suggests that, instead of getting into an unproductive argument with someone who's not interested in being convinced, you might as well drop a riddle on your interrogator.

Since the emmet (or ant) is close to the ground and the eagle's far above it, Blake's saying that discussing the limits of perception is something that's making philosophy feel a little overconfident. (After all, philosophy itself can't lead to new perceptions, but can only reason about preexisting ones—that's why it's "lame.")

The sun and moon are too busy doing their thing—radiating and, in the moon's case, reflecting light—to be distracted by a lot of trivial doubts that don't lead anywhere. Maybe, implies Blake, humans should be doing the same?