On Losing Truth

The wise are neither those who profess they know nothing, nor those who claim a certain knowledge, but rather those who fear, or rather admit, that at one time they beheld the the truth, it was maybe not plain and simple–maybe it was complex, maybe many threads had to come together to make this truth–but there for them, palpably lived, palpably endured–but lost.  To lose the truth shows something our other two candidates for a wise human being lack: a sense as to the stakes involved in truth.  For, the ignorant may profess an ideal, and the possessor of truth may rest secure, but the Oh, no! of the one who has lost truth remembers, however vaguely, however tenuously, that there was something to life–if only he could get it back!