Hermeneutics Quotes

“The hermeneutic phenomenon is basically not a problem of method at all.”

“Understanding is, essentially, a historically effected event.”

“The famous hermeneutic circle is not a vicious circle.”

“There is no self-understanding that is not mediated by signs, symbols, and texts.”

“The aim of hermeneutics is to make of the text a new event of discourse.”

“The symbol gives rise to thought.”

“To explain more is to understand better.”

“The wager of interpretation is that we can bet on the meaning of a text, and that the meaning can be validated.”

“The task of hermeneutics is to understand the author better than he understood himself.”

“The whole is known through the parts, and the parts are known through the whole.”

“Hermeneutics as the art of understanding is not yet grammar.”