„To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.“
— Franz Kafka
„That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary.. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead“
— Cassandra Clare
„when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.“
— Robert A. Heinlein