Introduction, p xi
The understanding and the interpretation of texts is not merely a concern of science, but is obviously part of the total human experience of the world.
p xii
The following investigation starts with the resistance within modern science against the universal claim of scientific method.
Foreword to the Second Edition, p xvi
[The present investigation] is concerned with the ‘scientific’ integrity of acknowledging the commitment involved in all understanding.
p xviii
Heidegger's temporal analytics of human existence (Dasein) has, I think, shown convincingly that understanding is not just one of the various possible behaviours of the subject, but the mode of being of There-being itself.
p xxxi
Understanding belongs to the being of that which is understood.