Prejudice is not the privilege of isolated thought but also of common sense.

Being that can be understood is language.

Understanding is, in its essence, an event of effective history.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

-- Hannah Arendt

You are not a fish — how do you know the fish's pleasure?

-- Zhuang Zhou

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

-- David Hume

Understanding is, in its essence, an event of effective history.

-- Hans-Georg Gadamer

Only by settling our differences with other members of the group can we actually understand the shortcomings of our own beliefs.

-- Lawrence Kohlberg

In order to understand what another person is saying, you must assume it is true and try to imagine what it could be true of.

-- George Armitage Miller