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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing. Where am I? What is this called the world? Who is it that lured me here? How did I come into this world? Why was I not consulted? Oh I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
- Søren Kierkegaard | |
...Unde mihi maxime subiit admirari, quaenam haec indoctorum hominum esset audacia qui inscientiae vitium praesumptionis atque inpudentiae nube conentur obducere, cum non modo saepe id quod proponatur ignorent, verum in huiusmodi contentionibus ne id quidem quod ipsi loquantur intellegant, quasi non deterior fiat inscientiae causa, dum tegitur.
...And with this discovery a great wonder came upon me at the vast temerity of unlearned men who seek with a cloud of impudent presumption to cover up the vice of ignorance, for not only do they often fail to grasp the point at issue, but in debates of this kind they do not even understand their own statements, as if the cause of ignorance is not made worse when it is covered up.
- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, "Contra Eutychen et Nestorium"
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