Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier.

I need to eliminate 'like' from my vocabulary. I begin sentences with, 'That's seriously like... ' I hear myself talking in this Los Angeles high-school student kind of way, and I hate it.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

I think the first time I was ever really conscious of the difference between people's voices was that my mother's voice was so soft and gentle and her pronunciation was so perfect.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.

If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences.

In my day-to-day, I might speak, like, 10 sentences.

Messages hidden in the thickets of a story are the ones that burrow deepest because most of us don't realize that any burrowing is going on at all.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.

We know more than we can tell.

I didn't know what I knew. I wasn't aware of what I knew.

I am not very conscious of the figures of speech that I use.

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

Hearing is listening to what is said. Listening is hearing what isn't said.

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.