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So there is no point in anyone trying to learn from me what I know I do not know - unless, perhaps, one wants to know how not to know what, as one ought to know, no one can know.
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- City of God, St. Augustine
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It should worry one to see with what hypochondriac profundity a former generation of Englishmen have discovered the ambiguity at the bottom of laughter. Thus Dr. Hartley has remarked: "When laughter first manifests itself in the infant, it is an incipient cry, incited by pain, or by a feeling of pain suddenly inhibited, and recurring at brief intervals." What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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- Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or