The art of splitting hairs four ways. This is the department of useless techniques. Mechanical Avunculogratulation, for example, is how to build machines for greeting uncles. We're not sure, though, if Pylocatabasis belongs, since it's the art of being saved by a hair. Somehow that doesn't seem completely useless.

[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.

The truth is a young maiden as modest as she is beautiful, and therefore she is always seen cloaked.

Simple mechanisms do not love.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Whoever reflects on four things I would be better if he were never born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, that which is after.

In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.