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For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.

Hans-Georg Gadamer
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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…

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Nothing exists except through language.

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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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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 …

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

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Being that can be understood is language.

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

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

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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…

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