ALL Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
his little bit the whole to own.
What is the Truth? was askt of yore.
Reply all object Truth is one
As twain of halves aye makes a whole;
the moral Truth for all is none.
Ye scantly-learned Zâhids learn
from Aflatûn and Aristû,[1]
While Truth is real like your good:
th' Untrue, like ill, is real too ...
[1. Plato and Aristotle.]
-Sir Richard F. Burton
"The Kasidah"
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