Hans-Georg Gadamer was a famous Philosopher from Germany, who lived between February 11, 1900 and March 13, 2002. He/she became 102 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Hans-Georg.
9 Famous quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer
"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said"
"Nothing exists except through language"
"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"
"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror"
"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"
"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"
"In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it"
"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"
"I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old"
