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Quotes from Aesthetics and Hermeneutics — Hans-Georg Gadamer

1900–2002 Germany

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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)

Everything depends on how something is said.

Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said.

Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)

A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.

Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)

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)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hans-Georg Gadamer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.