All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

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

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

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.

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