Quote on Being and Becoming by Alexander von Humboldt

"Basically, we must now say, there is only spirit. Matter is, so to speak, the slag of the spiritual. In our limited human perception, we regard this slag—as we can grasp it with our hands—as far more important than the spiritually alive. But in fact, it must be recognized: Ultimately, there is nothing that exists, nothing that exists by itself. There is only change, transformation, processes. Against this background, we can say: At every moment, the world is newly created. Paradigm of the living!" Hans-Peter Dürr

"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said." Hans-Georg Gadamer