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Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "Nothing exists except through language."

Nothing exists except through language.



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities."

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.




Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition."

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



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.




Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live."

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



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "History does not belong to us; we belong to it."

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.




Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind."

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play."

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 Quotes: "The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication."

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "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."

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.



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said."

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




Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it."

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.



Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes: "From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right."

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.