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

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Nothing exists except through language. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#exists #language #nothing #through

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#focus #mirror #subjectivity

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#books #i #old #only #over

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

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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. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

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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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