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

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

Nothing exists except through language.

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

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.

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

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