he knows that in one moment he is never the same as what he was in another;
he knows that he never agrees with “himself”, never has the same taste or the
same judgments about the true, the good, and the beautiful, and so never decides
categorically, never pronounces the last word but says only: such are my thoughts
for the moment, at the risk of having to go back on my error, if it is one
Kofman, Imitation According to Diderot