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No matter what verbal space you try to enclose zen in, it resists, and spills over... the zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
-Douglas Hofstadter
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No Matter What Verbal Space You Try

Douglas Hofstadter
No matter what verbal space you try to enclose zen in, it resists, and spills over... the zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
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