The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

Being that can be understood is language.

Nothing exists except through language.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

I can't believe he didn't have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter," said Jace. "I must say, I'm disappointed in the little fellow.

I left home when I was 16 because I was looking for adventure.

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

The best love affairs are those we never had.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

People who record birdsong generally do it very early-before six o'clock-if they can. Soon after that, the invasion of distant noise in most woodland becomes too constant and too loud.

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.