Belonging Together Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer

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• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer,…
• The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
• The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language…
• Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such…
• It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
• I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
• Nothing exists except through language.
• For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
• The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
• 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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