to thine own self be faithful And ...

to thine own self be faithful
And it must tread on the heels of as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Hamlet I. iii. 78-80

One human being can be a consummated enigma to another.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations IIxi, 223e

THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILOSOPHER AS SUB-GENRE
The later Wittgenstein repeatedly cautioned, indeed railed, against what he called "the craving for generality" (Monk Wittgenstein 338)--a craving that in his view proceeded in the formulation of theories instead of the