# Meister Eckhart - "Only the hand that erases..."

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meister-eckhart-only-the-hand-that-erases/788072 "2017-06-04T00:54:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 4, 2017, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meister-eckhart-only-the-hand-that-erases/788072/1 "2017-06-04T00:54:35Z")

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Can write the true thing…"

Does anyone know where this quote comes from? It has been used by Marshall McLuhan and Dag Hammarskjold, but it is hard to google past that.