"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."

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Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2008). “Philosophical Hermeneutics”, p.65, Univ of California Press

Hans-Georg Gadamer

#Real Quotes #Self Quotes #Language Quotes

“I once read that in any good marriage, one partner is the gardener and the other is the garden. We take it in turns to be either.”
“I can't live with art: I'd spend too much time tweaking it.”
“Acting is just a job. I'm exactly the same as that lady bringing us coffee, and I have to remember that.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 30, 2018
“All men are equal before fish.”
“It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.”
“No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.”
“But how shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world to those evidences which were presented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? During the age of Christ, of his apostles, and their first disciples, the doctrine which they preached was confirmed by innumerable prodigies. The lame walked, the blind saw, the sick were healed, the dead were raised, daemons were expelled, and the laws of Nature were frequently suspended for the benefit of the church.”
“Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.”

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