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The Focus Of Subjectivity Is A Distorting Mirror.

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.

History Does Not Belong To Us; We Belong To It.

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.

From Gadamer I Learned That To Understand A Given Thinker Requires One To Presuppose That He Is Right.