Understanding is, in its essence, an event of effective history.

One who knows how to speak does not seek to be right but seeks to understand.

Prejudice is not the privilege of isolated thought but also of common sense.

Language is the house of Being.

-- Martin Heidegger

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

-- Hannah Arendt

Mutual understanding is inherent in human language as its telos.

-- Jürgen Habermas

Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?

-- Paul Gauguin