Mark Berelekhis (asker) Apr 4, 2012:

Thanks, everyone! That is indeed the quote. (Thanks also to Andrei for PMing it to me.) Katerina, please post it as an answer.

katerina turevich Apr 3, 2012:

p. 9 of the book mentioned below "At first they are alien:
more or less repel, more or less attract. They are in no way
obvious; their acquaintance must be made if they are to be
known. The process by which they are known is entirely ex-
ternal; only thus does learning bring experience; only thus, by
virtue of what lies without, does the inner self come to know
itself."

I found it in the book mentioned by AxmxZ. I got it one time in a second book store. It makes for some fair reading. At least it's well translated, which you can't say about Adorno translations.

AxmxZ Apr 3, 2012:

Это из Tübinger Einleitung in die Philosophie. В оригинале: "{Und draußen geht dem Ansich des Um-uns auf, worin Menschen stehen und unter, neben oder über ihnen Dinge.} Als mehr oder minder abstoßende, mehr oder minder anziehende Fremdlinge zuerst; sie müssen so, als keineswegs selbstverständlich, erst gelernt werden."

Я знаю только один английский перевод этой книги: "A philosophy of the future," translated by John Cumming (New York: Herder & Herder, 1970). К сожалению у меня нет его под рукой.

Susan Welsh Apr 3, 2012:

Anything more? Do you know anything more about this work? Such as its German title, or anything more about it, more about the context in which the sentence appears?