The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Wisdom
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Wisdom
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.
Education
It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Success
Nothing exists except through language.
Wisdom
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
Wisdom
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Wisdom
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.
Life
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Wisdom