Many things expressed through philosophy can address only people who live primarily within the sphere of analytical and logical thought. Yet another level of truth exists, one apprehended and lived by people very different from those whose orientation is predominantly analytical and logical.

If we reduce truth to analytical thought alone, we inevitably close our eyes to those levels of truth that do not fit within the linear and logical structures of the human mind. We become blind to them.

The world exceeds human logic, and its levels of truth do not necessarily submit to the analytical thinking of the philosophical mind.

We live in a world that, in my view, has placed an unbalanced and excessive value on analytical thought.

A person may lack strength in analytical or philosophical thinking, or even in articulating beliefs, and yet at another level possess a deeper connection to the fundamental truth of the world than a philosopher.

A thinker or philosopher does not necessarily possess a deeper relationship with the truth of life merely because of the complexity of their thought or their ability to articulate it. Sometimes a far greater and deeper truth resides in the kindness and love of ordinary people in our everyday lives than in the efforts of a philosopher’s logical mind or the grand and elaborate language of an intellectual.

Sometimes truth must be sought not in philosophy but in the simplicity of a child, the courage of a fighter, the kindness of a passer-by and the helping hand of a friend. We should remember that philosophy itself is an attempt to take the first step towards such truths.

Aydin Areta