W. H. Auden om sanning:

Man … can never know the whole truth, because as the subject who knows, he has to remain outside the truth, and the truth is therefore incomplete.*

Han låter precis som F. A. Hayek i ”The Use of Knowledge in Society” och The Sensory Order! Poeten möter nationalekonomen.

*Ur Davenport-Hines, Richard (1995). Auden. London: Random House: 114.