Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
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
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…
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Being that can be understood is language. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
Being that can be understood is language.
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
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and…
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 ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic …
Nothing exists except through language. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
Nothing exists except through language.
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. - Hans-Georg Gadamer
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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
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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