The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

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.

He seems like a man who knows what he wants, and the problem is he wants what I want.

If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator

Let us have peace.

There's nothing I know for sure, because I know for sure that things change.

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause. And make you money.

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.