This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover so…

Soren Kierkegaard
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.

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