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

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.

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

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 focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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.