my favorite Gadamer sentence

I’ve always thought this nutshell summary of Being and Time was dead-on correct and highly insightful:

“What being is was to be determined from within the horizon of time. Thus the structure of temporality appeared as ontologically definitive of subjectivity. But it was more than that. Heidegger’s thesis was that being itself is time. Thus burst asunder the whole subjectivism of modern philosophy– and, in fact, as was soon to appear, the whole horizon of questions asked by metaphysics, which tended to define being as what is present.”