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The limit of humility.  Many have no doubt attained to that humility which says: credo quia absurdum est131 and sacrificed their reason to it: but, so far as I know, no one has yet attained to that humility which says: credo quia absurdus sum, though it is only one step further.

131. credo quia absurdum est, credo quia absurdum sum: "I believe because it is absurd, I believe because I am absurd."
Friedrich Nietzsche - Daybreak
Book IV - Aphorism # 417

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