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List of Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes
We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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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.
Historical
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Form
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. There Is No Doubt That The Leaders Of The Creative Artists Of The Last 50 Years Concentrated Their Efforts Mainly On Eliminating That Distance.
Art
Fun
Distance
From Gadamer I Learned That To Understand A Given Thinker Requires One To Presuppose That He Is Right.
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Thinker
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.
Real
Self
Language
For Both Art And The Historical Sciences Are Ways Of Experiencing In Which Our Own Understanding Of Existence Is Immediately Brought Into Play.
Art
Play
Understanding
All Cities We Have Visited Are Precincts In This Metropolis Of The Mind.
Cities
Mind
Metropolis
The Real Being Of Language Is That Into Which We Are Taken Up When We Hear It - What Is Said.
Real
Taken
Language
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.
Religious
Art
Giving
Unlike Seeing, Where One Can Look Away, One Cannot 'hear Away' But Must Listen ... Hearing Implies Already Belonging Together In Such A Manner That One Is Claimed By What Is Being Said.
Music
Silence
Listening
I Basically Only Read Books That Are Over 2,000 Years Old.
Book
Years
The Hermeneutic Consciousness, Which Must Be Awakened And Kept Awake, Recognized That In The Age Of Science Philosophy's Claim Of Superiority Has Something Chimerical And Unreal About It. But Though The Will Of Man Is More Than Ever Intensifying Its Criticism Of What Has Gone Before To The Point Of Becoming Utopian Or Eschatological Consciousness, The Hermeneutic Consciousness Seeks To Confront That Will With Something Of The Truth Of Remembrance: With What Is Still And Ever Again Real.
Philosophy
Real
Men
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.
Reality
Men
Thinking
Born: February 11, 1900
Died: March 13, 2002
Occupation: Philosopher
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