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

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

What labels me, negates me.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.