It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER, Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER, Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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