The perils of over-analysis

"You Western folks are a little silly sometimes. You think that if you cut the dog and study its parts, you now understand what a dog is. Even worse, you sometimes sound as if you believe that by putting the parts back together in their proper places, you have a dog again. But you don't. You have a dead dog. When you decided to take the dog apart in the first place, you lost sight of the most important issue -- the fact that the dog is living!"

Kwame Bediako, Ghanaian theologian