"The absolute paradox is that God, the eternal, has entered into time, the temporal, and has become man."

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

"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do."

"The present age is essentially a sensible, reflecting age, which knows how to do everything, but which does nothing."

"The aesthetic individual is the one who lives in the moment, for the moment, and with the moment."