A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

To be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc.

It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became conscious of being such. Perhaps this was no error but in a far higher sense was an essential part of the whole exposition. It is, then, as if this clerical error were to revolt against the author, out of hatred for him, were to forbid him to correct it, and were to say, "No, I will not be erased, I will stand as a witness against thee, that thou art a very poor writer."

Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.

What labels me, negates me.

About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.