perhaps by saying after Montaigne ‘What do I know?’ Or after Socrates: ‘I know that I know nothing.’ Or: ‘Here I do not trust myself, here no door stands open to me.’ Or: ‘If it did stand open, why go straight in?’ Or: ‘What is the point of hasty hypotheses? To make no hypothesis at all could well be a part of good taste. Do you absolutely have to go straightening out what is crooked? Absolutely have to stop up every hole with oakum?
