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Greece's greatest contribution to the quest was the idea of Balance. Those who lack it, lack the proper capacity to receive truth as it is. And among them those who are narrow and fanatical, who make a special claim to supremacy for their way, cult, or doctrine, end by becoming the victims of their own exaggeration. A single glimpse is announced as a permanent illumination; a perception of metaphysical truth is announced as total illumination.

-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 3 : Its Requirements > # 286