The truth is not at one extreme, nor at the other, nor in the middle--it is at both extremes simultaneously
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Replying to @neon_shadows
it isn't related to the political classification system; Taleb and Chesterton discuss it too
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GKC goes into this in Orthodoxy in the chapter "Paradoxes of Christianity," Taleb talks about the "Barbell Strategy"
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"For orthodox theology has specially insisted that Christ was not a being apart from God and man, like an elf, nor yet..."
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"...a being half human and half not, like a centaur, but both things at once and both things thoroughly, very man & very God"
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"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die"
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