"The greatest danger in life is that you may take too many precautions."

"The self is a relation which relates itself to itself or, what is the same thing, is in the relation's relating itself to itself."

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

"I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man."

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