The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
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.
Being that can be understood is language.
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. . . Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
Nothing exists except through language.
Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee. " Cup coffee?" Taste it. " What? Are you the coffee police or something?
You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.
[On Chinese Internet,] freedom is a targeted and precise window.
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.