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

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

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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

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

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

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.