"The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that."

"If I am to love God, I must be able to recognize him; if I am to recognize him, then he must be visible; if he is visible, then he is not God."

"The highest good is not to be understood as an abstract, but as a concrete, as a personality."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [i…"

"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do."