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.

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

When we will learn to use the power of love to win the war, universal peace and happiness will be there.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I'm up to here with cool, okay? I am so amazingly cool you could keep a side of meat in me for a month. I am so hip I have difficulty seeing over my pelvis.

Slavery was not born of racism; rather, racism was the consequence of slavery.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the world they have lived in.