From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

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.

Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.(Pluck the day [for it is ripe], trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.)

Success=Assinchair

Truth in, untruth out. Seek thus, within-without

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

The only way to be an actor is to find ways to work as an actor, even if that means doing a one-man show by a river.

Social media, to me, is like a marriage. You have to foster it and take care of it and commit to it. And you have to understand your partner.

No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

The secret to investing is to figure out the value of something - and then pay a lot less.

Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.