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Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

Type:
Philosopher Quotes
Category:
German Philosopher Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 11, 1900
Date of Death:
March 13, 2002
Nationality:
German
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer


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