Hans-Georg Gadamer

(12 votes)   The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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(10 votes)   I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

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(10 votes)   There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(11 votes)   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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(7 votes)   In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

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(6 votes)   Nothing exists except through language.

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(8 votes)   The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.

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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   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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(7 votes)   The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

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(6 votes)   For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

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