What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here an…

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

Nothing exists except through language.

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic …

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

Being that can be understood is language.

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and…

- Hans-Georg Gadamer

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to i…

- Hans-Georg Gadamer