Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes

"I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
(Related: Books, Old, Years)

"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
(Related: Being, Language, Living, Self)

"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
(Related: Art, Work, Motives)

"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
(Related: Education, Being, Consciousness)

"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
(Related: Society, Family, Self, State)

"Nothing exists except through language."
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
(Related: Language, Nothing)

"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror."
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
(Related: Focus)

"In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it."
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
(Related: History, Fact)