The Highest Covenant 3 · The Six Axioms Carved Above the Gate
3.1Whoever asks where it stands shall lose where it goes; whoever asks where it goes shall lose where it stands. (cf. Gospel of Plato 1.24)
3.2The two cannot both be had. Not because men are foolish, but because heaven is so made. (cf. Gospel of Plato 1.26)
3.3Therefore: doubling your effort makes one end sharper and the other blurrier. What you spend does not buy both ends.
3.4Therefore: whoever says "with enough care, everything can be made clear" is not failing for want of care. He is asking heaven for what it does not permit.
3.5Therefore: some matters have no right and wrong. They have only a price. To choose which one to make clear is to choose which one to give up.
3.6Therefore: when "is this right?" yields no answer, change the question to — what does this cost, and who pays it?