Quote by Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"Philosophical understanding is not a achievement we possess but an event that happens to us in encounter with truth."
More from Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"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."