Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes
A German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method.
(1900 - 2002)
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
[Self Knowledge]
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My real concern was and is philosophic: not what we do or what we ought to do, but what happens to us over and above our wanting and doing.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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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.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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