For Both Art And The Historical Sciences

What Man Needs Is Not Just The Persistent Posing Of Ultimate Questions, But The Sense Of What Is Feasible, What Is Possible, What Is Correct, Here And Now. The Philosopher, Of All People, Must, I Think, Be Aware Of The Tension Between What He Claims To Achieve And The Reality In Which He Finds Himself.

Being That Can Be Understood Is Language.

A Cultured Society That Has Fallen Away From Its Religious Traditions Expects More From Art Than The Aesthetic Consciousness And The 'standpoint Of Art' Can Deliver. The Romantic Desire For A New Mythology... Gives The Artist And His Task In The World The Consciousness Of A New Consecration. He Is Something Like A 'secular Saviour' For His Creations Are Expected To Achieve On A Small Scale The Propitiation Of Disaster For Which An Unsaved World Hopes.

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.

The Essence Of The Question Is The Opening Up, And Keeping Open, Of Possibilities.