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.

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.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Nothing exists except through language.

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

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.