Gadamer On Language Quotes & Sayings

Nothing exists except through language. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures? — Anna Sewell

I'm nobody, who are you? — Emily Dickinson

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

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. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

You're crazy, Dylan. Oh, my God, you proposed marriage with index cards? No one else in the world would do that. Yes. Yes, Yes! If you ask me a thousand times, then every single time I'll say yes. — Charles Sheehan-Miles

If, however, we pursue what is expressed in the phrase 'the language of things', we are pointed in a similar direction. The language of things too is something to which we should pay better attention. This expression also has a kind of polemical accent. It expresses the fact that, in general, we are not at all ready to hear things in there own being, that they are subjected to man's calculus and to his domination of nature through the rationality of science. — GADAMER, HANS GEORG

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. — Martin Luther

Lowell's an odd duck," Peterson said. "He's a loner. He reads books. — Lee Child

Being that can be understood is language. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Corporate and government surveillance aren't separate; they're an alliance of interests. — Bruce Schneier