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Every interpretation is a dialogue with the work, and with the saying. However, every dialogue becomes halting and fruitless if it confines itself obdurately to nothing but what is directly said — rather than that the speakers in the dialogue involve each other in that realm and abode about which they are speaking, and lead each other to it. Such involvement is the soul of dialogue. It leads the speakers into the unspoken. The term “conversation” does, of course, express the fact that the speakers are turning to one another. Every conversation is a kind of dialogue. But true dialogue is never a conversation. Conversation consists in slithering along the edges of the subject matter, precisely without getting involved in the unspoken. Most textual interpretations — not only of philosophical texts — remain at the level of conversation, which may often be rich and informative. And that, in many cases is enough.

- Martin Heidegger

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Teaching is even more difficult than learning…. Not because the teacher must have a larger store of information, and have it always ready. Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than — learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by “learning” we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information. The teacher is ahead of his apprentices in this alone, that he has still far more to learn than they — he has to learn to let them learn. The teacher must be more teachable than the apprentices. The teacher is far less assured of his ground than those who learn are of theirs. If the relation between the teacher and the taught is genuine, therefore, there is never a place in it for the authority of the know-it-all or the authoritative sway of the official.

- Martin Heidegger

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Badly educated children are not those for whom one has done too much. One never does too much for a child. But they are those who have never been taught to give back in exchange for what they have received. Parents who have spoiled their children are selfish people. They really did not give themselves. They kept for themselves what was best in them. They did not confide in them the joy of giving.

- Louis Evely

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There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.

- Michel Foucault

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You can watch over people but you can’t make choices for them.

- Horatio Caine (CSI: Miami)

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Hurt people hurt people.

- Florence (Greenberg)

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It is not what one says but what one causes to be understood; it is not what one paints but what one causes to be imagined that is important in eloquence and the arts.

- Joubert

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The Way of Learning is nothing other than this: searching for the heart that has wandered away.

- Mengzi

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[T]he relationship to the world that modern science fostered and shaped appears to have exhausted its potential. The relationship is missing something. It fails to connect with the most intrinsic nature of reality and with natural human experience. It produces a state of schizophrenia: man as an observer is becoming completely alienated from himself as a being. Classical modern science described only the surface of things, a single dimension of reality. And the more dogmatically science treated it as the only dimension, as the very essence of reality, the more misleading it became. We may know immeasurably more about our universe than our ancestors did, and yet it increasingly seems they knew something more essential about it than we do, something that escapes us.

- Vaclav Havel (1994)

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(T)his (western) culture, which once imagined itself inside a church, feels trapped in something like a zoo of separate cages…

– Philip Rieff