"The texts that make up this volume are variations on a single theme, the theme of a philosophy that is exercised above all by testing those perspectives that follow the patterns of the moment. The kind of philosophy I cultivate—I might even say 'my thought'—is governed more by a logic of conversation than by a closed, argumentative logic. However, one doesn't 'arrive' here from nowhere, nor is one constantly wandering around, but rather remains within a horizon. This is, essentially, also our own relationship with being, for such is the openness within which we exist, quite unlike a systematic structure with a beginning, middle, and end. What, then, can be expected from such inconclusive thought as this, from one that, instead of seeking conclusions, precisely wants to remain open?"

" "If I must recommend this book to anyone, I will do so by appealing to the fact that reading it can improve their life, and perhaps not only because it can provide them with certain materials for 'entertainment,' but much more plausibly, according to the author at least, because it can improve their life by 'changing' it; remember that this was for Gadamer the meaning of the experience of truth in art: after reading -in this case- you are no longer the same, and speaking in Hegelian terms not because you have lost something, but because you have gained something, you have acquired that mutation that occurs in the reader..."