From Gadamer I Learned That To Understand

It Was Clear To Me That The Forms Of Consciousness Of Our Inherited And Acquired Historical Education - Aesthetic Consciousness And Historical Consciousness - Presented Alienated Forms Of Our True Historical Being.

It Is The Tyranny Of Hidden Prejudices That Makes Us Deaf To What Speaks To Us In Tradition.

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.

Long Before We Understand Ourselves Through The Process Of Self-examination, We Understand Ourselves In A Self-evident Way In The Family, Society And State In Which We Live.

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.