“We would know far more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to the close study of its contradictions instead of wasting so much time on similarities and connections, which should anyway, be self-explanatory.”
Source: The Cave (2000), p. 15 (Vintage 2003)
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Source: Truth and Method (1960), p. 289
Variant translation: In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to history. … The focus of subjectivity is a distorted mirror. Individual self-reflection is merely a flickering in the closed circuit of historical life. That is why the prejudices of an individual are —much more than that individual's judgments — the historical reality of his being.
As quoted in Tom Neton, "Hermeneutical Truth and the Structure of Human Experience: Gadamer's Critique of Dilthey" in The Specter of Relativism: Truth, Dialogue, and Phronesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics (1995) edited by Lawrence Schmidt.

Source: An Aristocracy of Everyone (1992), p. 22

Source: Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

“The ways in which we are similar are far more numerous than the ways in which we are different.”
Interview on Regis and Kelly Show (2004) http://www.jennifer-beals.com/media/videos/interviews/clips_interviews1.html#regis/.
Music: An Art and a Language (1920), Preface

Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 8.12

From Albert Einstein and the Cosmic World Order, by C. Lanczos (Wiley, New York, 1956)
Attributed in posthumous publications, Albert Einstein: A guide for the perplexed (1979)