The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

Nothing exists except through language.

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

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

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

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.