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The intellect cannot be used to ascertain the ultimate truth without becoming involved at the end in inexplicable contradictions. Some of them are: There is an ego--there is no ego. The world is real--the world is unreal. Any idea or statement about fundamental being, whether of man or cosmos, can be countered by its opposite.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 1 : The Place of Intellect > # 189