The Shattered Mirror

This is from the book I'm reading now, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time), by Kwame
Anthony Appiah. Appiah talks at length about a globe-trotting,
culture-traversing, multi-lingual (reportedly 39 languages)
Englishman of the 19th century, Richard Burton, to illuminate some
key points. There is a passage from a book length poem written by
Burton, The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî, commonly known as the
Kasidah, that is compelling because it's true, or because I agree with
it, but let's pretend they're the same thing :)

All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own.

The entire poem is online at
http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/burton/richard/b97k/