An Important Idea

I have this chronic itch to write something true and important. There is a thought in here; has been for a long time. Not quite sure how to put it into words. On the bright side, I am probably no more wrong about things than I was last year. So I'll give it one more attempt in 2020. Here goes.

Forty years ago, as I recall, I wrote this, and at the time it seemed true and important:
"Theories are partial, parochial, ephemeral and contingent. Don't sell your soul for a theory, even this one." 

I still like the unusual words I used back then, but they don't feel quite right. What I meant was:
a creed is a list of points for discussion. 

No, no, what I really meant to say was this:
an idea may point to the truth, but the closer you get to the truth, the more the idea gets in the way.

On fourth thought:
current heterodoxy becomes the orthodoxy of the next age and a fossil soon after, where it remains unless it is dug up to become the current heterodoxy once again.

On the other hand:
the currency of thought is metaphor. Enlightenment is noticing that the metaphor is counterfeit.

Naw...:
an idea is just an idea; words are just words; and the Truth is always more than what can be thought or spoken.

I think I didn't quite say it all.  One more attempt, using $50 words: 
life is recursive eisegesis. If you are alive, it's your turn to say what it all means.

What do you think?
No?
Proves my point.
Maybe next year.