We are passengers, comprehended and displaced by metaphor.

What I would like to show is that there is a vital dimension of their writing, which I call performative reflexivity, which if ignored or misunderstood will impede an adequate response to it.

Dialogue never ends not for lack of time or opportunity but for essential reasons.

To understand how indirect communication is possible we must grasp what it is about ordinary communication that is being changed.

The point is that philosophy is seen to have come full circle, and to have exhausted itself.

After Hegel, philosophy confronts the possibility of its own death, and in some sense has to do so if it is to remain the most fundamental kind of thinking.

Philosophy in its very act is a process of translation!

The educated man is the man who does not live in immediate intuition, but in his recollection so that little is new to him any longer.

Like literature, philosophy is not distinguished from other subjects by a specific approach to a subject-matter independent of it. Chemistry deals with chemicals, biology with life and astronomy with very large, very distant objects. Philosophy can boast no such definite subject-matter.

To say that all philosophy is writing is, minimally, to say that it is never the transparent expression of thought.