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

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

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

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.

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.

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