Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.

We live and breathe words.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

Being is the great explainer.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

In order to remain silent Da-sein must have something to say.