… irony has two stages: the one exemplified by Socrates when he says, ‘I only know that I know nothing’, and the other exemplified by Sanchez when he says, ‘I do not even know that I know nothing’. The first stage reaches the point where we doubt ourselves dogmatically, and every superior man attains that level. The second arrives at the point when we doubt both ourselves and our doubt, and very few have attained that during the brief, but already too long, span of time which we, humanity, have seen alternating the day and the night on the variegated surface of the earth.

Soares