"if you can't explain yourself, you usually don't know what you are talking about"
A wonderful tautology that works just as well in converse, therefore promoting the virtues of (willful) ignorance and silence. Why does achieving both take so much work? Thinking and talking are what make us human.
"if you can't explain yourself, you usually don't know what you are talking about"
A wonderful tautology that works just as well in converse, therefore promoting the virtues of (willful) ignorance and silence. Why does achieving both take so much work? Thinking and talking are what make us human.
Oh, I like that reverse thing. Good point.
And yeah, the conversation is the basis of society, science, democracy, etc.
Goes back to my notion that Western philosophy has a bias towards 'things' whereas Daoism has a bias towards 'processes'.