FOOL.--I have a question for you.
PHILOSOPHER.--I have a number of them for myself. Do you happen to
have heard that a fool can ask more questions in a breath than a
philosopher can answer in a life?
F.--I happen to have heard that in such a case the one is as great a
fool as the other.
PH.--Then there is no distinction between folly and philosophy?
F.--Don't lay the flattering unction to your soul. The province of
folly is to ask unanswerable questions. It is the function of
philosophy to answer them.
PH.--Admirable fool!