In all arguments between you and me,
You think you have got the better of me,
And I will not admit your superiority.
Then are you really right and I really wrong?
I think I have got the better of you
And you will not admit my superiority—
Then am I really right and you really wrong?
Or, most probably, are we both right or
Are we both wrong? This, you and I
Can’t know—we are encircled in darkness,
And who is going to establish the truth?
If we let one who agrees with you establish it,
Then that one already agrees with you,
So how could he establish it? If we let one
Who agrees with me establish the truth,
Then that one already agrees with me,
So how could he establish it? If we let one
Who disagrees with both of us establish
The truth, then that one already disagrees
With both of us, so how could he establish it?
If we let one who agrees with both of us
Establish the truth, then that one already agrees
With both of us, so how could he establish it?
Thus, you and I and the third party’s ones
Cannot know the truth, and how can we wait for
The other points of view? According to
The mentioned eight postulates of the theory
Of mutual exclusion, truth cannot be proved,
Although it may be grasped directly by the mind
And in a dialectic way, without verbalization.
Truly, silence in action or action in silence—
The only superiority I still admit among other things.
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