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Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you'll get to where God wants you to be.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. . . Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

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Being that can be understood is language.

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The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.

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Nothing exists except through language.

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The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.

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