It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

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

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

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

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

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.