"Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it."
— Listening

January 1, 1970

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Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Aesthetics and Hermeneutics" (1964), in Philosophical Hermeneutics, translated and edited by David E. Linge (University of California Press: 1976), p. 102.