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Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

Hans-Georg Gadamer quotes

Deutsch Philosopher February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002

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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
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
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes. 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
What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote: "I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote: "The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."
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
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote: "The real being of language is that into which we are taken up..."
The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote: "In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it."
In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote: "In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it."
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer quote: "Nothing exists except through language."
Nothing exists except through language. Hans-Georg Gadamer

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