Facts about Hans-Georg Gadamer

Occup.	Philosopher
From	Germany
Born	February 11, 1900
Died	March 13, 2002
Aged	102 years

Summary

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

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

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"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

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

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said"

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"Nothing exists except through language"

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

"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror"

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"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"

Hans-Georg Gadamer

"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