Quote by Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"The text survives its original context and speaks to new times because it contains meanings beyond its author's awareness."
"The text survives its original context and speaks to new times because it contains meanings beyond its author's awareness."
"Understanding is not a state of rest but a state of play."
"Language is the universal medium in which understanding itself is realized."
"Genuine historical thinking must think away the distance and difference of the times."
"The hermeneutic experience is concerned with the otherness of the other."