The Dudeism Oracool

One of the most potent divisive factors is the claim to complete or absolute truth, whether of revelation, dogma, righteousness, or anything else. Systems based on any such absolute inevitability come up against new facts and discoveries which are in opposition to their pretensions. The only method then open is to assert that the new ideas are also absolute, in the opposed sense of being absolutely wrong; and this at once creates division, and shuts the door on synthesis and development. A claim to absolute truth may be dressed up to appear as a claim to universality: but in point of fact it is always particular and not general, and can never become truly universal. Le mieux c’est l’ennemi du bien [The ideal is the enemy of the good].

–Julian Huxley, New Bottles for New Wine