Nothing Exists Except Through Language.

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.

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.

The Ambiguity Of Poetic Language Answers To The Ambiguity Of Human Life As A Whole, And Therein Lies Its Unique Value. All Interpretations Of Poetic Language Only Interpret What The Poetry Has Already Interpreted.

The Real Being Of Language Is That Into Which We Are Taken Up When We Hear It - What Is Said.

For Both Art And The Historical Sciences Are Ways Of Experiencing In Which Our Own Understanding Of Existence Is Immediately Brought Into Play.