can't help remembering the William Blake quote: If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
It spins around my head a bit, even though I'm not so interested in wisdow. And just because he said it, it might mean nothing, or mean something while being plain wrong. But still it spins around my head. Does it imply that we should seek folly? That prudence and good judgement are somehow not adviseable. That many of our good decisions are bad decisions?
So it means none of this. Barely suggests any of it. But something drives these skewed interpretations.
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I think the point in this quote is not to give you some useful truth to know, but insted to make you ponder the possible wrongness of truths that you feel are appearent.
It is a koan, where the statement seems to be paradoxical, but by puzzling over it, you can gain insight.
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