The More Language Is A Living Operation,

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

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

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.

The Process Of Translating Comprises In Its Essence The Whole Secret Of Human Understanding Of The World And Of Social Communication.

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.