Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.