I Basically Only Read Books

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 One Of The Primary Motives Of Modern Art That It Wants To Abolish The Distance Which The Viewer, The Consumer, The Audience Maintain Vis-a-vis A Work Of Art. There Is No Doubt That The Leaders Of The Creative Artists Of The Last 50 Years Concentrated Their Efforts Mainly On Eliminating That Distance.

The Process Of Translating Comprises In Its Essence The Whole Secret Of Human Understanding Of The World And Of Social Communication.

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.

From Gadamer I Learned That To Understand A Given Thinker Requires One To Presuppose That He Is Right.