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

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.

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.

In reality there are no limitations. They are vibrant and changeable to whatever form you want them to take to realise your goals.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Dictatorship is always merely an aria, never an opera.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

Every previous era looks innocent.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

The opponents of perestroika had suffered a defeat, and then they organized the coup.

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.