We Cannot Understand Without Wanting To Understand,

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

It Is The Tyranny Of Hidden Prejudices That Makes Us Deaf To What Speaks To Us In Tradition.

All Cities We Have Visited Are Precincts In This Metropolis Of The Mind.

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.

I Basically Only Read Books That Are Over 2,000 Years Old.