“Just because you don't know everything don't mean you know nothing.”
Source: The Midwife's Apprentice
“Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that.”
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 30
Context: Fantastic, Phædrus thinks, that he should have remembered that. It just demolishes the whole dialectical position. That may just be the whole show right there. Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that.
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