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

“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.”

“Philosophy in its very act is a process of translation!”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Nietzsche's problem is how to be a philosopher once he has grasped the finitude of philosophy.”