Mr. McGinn, who calls himself both a “ladies’ man” and “the most enlightened person in the world,” is not one to hide his belief that modesty is a form of dishonesty. “People sometimes perceive superiority as arrogance,” he says. “A superior person is not necessarily arrogant, but just superior.”

--Seth Zweifler on Colin McGinn. (Behind a paywall, alas. Background here. Hilarious fake Twitter feed here.)