Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

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

Family, Society, Live

Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Nothing, Through, Language

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

Focus, Mirror, Distorting

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

History, Fact, Belong

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

Education, True, Clear

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Hans-Georg Gadamer

Old, Read, Books

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

Work, Art, Wants

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

Real, Living, Said

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

Real, Said, Language

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 11, 1900

Died: March 13, 2002

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