One Never Knows, Do One …

One day Chuang-tzu and a friend were walking along a riverbank. Chuang-tzu pointed to the fish.

“How delightfully the fishes are enjoying themselves in the water!” he exclaimed.

“You are not a fish,” his friend said. “How do you know whether or not the fishes are enjoying themselves?”

“You are not me,” Chuang-tzu said. “How do you know that I do not know that the fishes are enjoying themselves?”

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