Being That Can Be Understood

Nothing Exists Except Through Language.

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

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

Unlike Seeing, Where One Can Look Away, One Cannot 'hear Away' But Must Listen ... Hearing Implies Already Belonging Together In Such A Manner That One Is Claimed By What Is Being Said.

The Hermeneutic Consciousness, Which Must Be Awakened And Kept Awake, Recognized That In The Age Of Science Philosophy's Claim Of Superiority Has Something Chimerical And Unreal About It. But Though The Will Of Man Is More Than Ever Intensifying Its Criticism Of What Has Gone Before To The Point Of Becoming Utopian Or Eschatological Consciousness, The Hermeneutic Consciousness Seeks To Confront That Will With Something Of The Truth Of Remembrance: With What Is Still And Ever Again Real.