Nothing exists except through language.

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

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.

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

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

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