Master Wisdom
A student asks a meditating master to define wisdom and notices the answer is the master's definition of math.
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Student: "Master... what is wisdom?"
Master: "It is the pure truth of the world, extracted from the world itself. It is the general distilled from the specific."
Student: "But, Master... that's exactly how you defined math."
Master: "Ah, good, you're catching on."