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is selective. A person hears only what they understand.

A person hears only what they understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is one of the body's five senses. But listening is an art.

is based upon the very possibility of the word, and needs it.

Much has the human experienced. Named many of the heavenly ones, Since we have been a conversation And can hear from one another.* From these verses, let us first select one that immediately fits into the context so far: “Since we have been a conversation…” We—human beings—are a conversation. Human Being is grounded in language; but first properly occurs in conversation. This, however, is just one way in which language takes place; language is only essential as conversation. […] Yet Hölderlin says: “Since we have been a conversation and can hear from one another.” Being able to hear is not merely a consequence of speaking with one another, but is instead the condition for this. Even being able to hear is itself in turn based upon the possibility of the word, and needs it. Being able to talk and being able to hear are equally originary. We are a conversation—and that means we are able to hear from one another. We are a conversation, and that also always means: We are one conversation.

is different from listening. The line between them is interest.

The line between hearing and listening is interest.

is that which requires that one must be silent.

is not the same as listening --- to listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

is a sense that goes and comes towards the sound, taking roundabout routes.

Smell is a one-way rectilinear sense. Hearing goes and comes towards the sound, taking roundabout routes. Sight is a fan, like water deploying in a river. Taste jogs off in all directions like an army on maneuvers. But touch is like air; it has no laws, taking its capricious way wherever plea- 2 sure prompts it to go.

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