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Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)
People cannot live without hope; this is one of the statements I can defend without any reservations.
Everything depends on how something is said.
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)
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 and now.
Truth and Method (1960)
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said.
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)
Aristotle established the classical definition of man, according to which man is the living being who has logos.
Man and Language (1966)
The free artist creates without a commission.
Truth and Method (1960)
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it.
Man and Language (1966)
A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)
Being that can be understood is language.
Truth and Method (1960)
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it — what is said.
Man and Language (1966)
In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to history.
History does not belong to us, we belong to it.
The language of art is constituted precisely by the fact that it speaks to the self-understanding of every person, and it does this as ever present and by means of its own contemporaneousness. Indeed, precisely the contemporaneousness of the work allows it to come to expression in language. Everything depends on how something is said.
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores in Understanding Computers and Cognition : A New Foundation for Design (1986)
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