Quote by Gadamer, Hans-Georg
"The interpreter brings their own historical situation to the text, and this is not a distortion but a necessary condition."
"The interpreter brings their own historical situation to the text, and this is not a distortion but a necessary condition."
"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."