36 Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.

The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

Nothing exists except through language.