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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,…
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The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
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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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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language…
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such…
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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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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
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The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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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 lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the…
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I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not…
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Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to…
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For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.…
— Ted Dekker
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It was never the act itself but our own understanding of it that defeated us, over and over again.
— Marisha Pessl
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In any area of our lives where we fail to act from integrity or violate our own understanding of what is right…
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There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force…
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We have to learn how to trust in the LORD with all our heart, and lean not on our own understanding. Build…
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