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Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
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Exists
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Being that can be understood is language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
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History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
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Doe
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
Focus
Mirrors
Objectivity
Subjectivity
Distorting
Mirror
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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Book
Years
Books
Basically
Read
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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History
Does
Belong
Fact
In Fact
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All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.
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Cities
Metropolis
Mind
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The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
Essence
Opening Up
Possibility
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It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
Prejudice
Speak
Tradition
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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 / Philosopher
Language
Real
Taken
Hear
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From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
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The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
Communication
Essence
Understanding
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For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.
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Art
Play
Understanding
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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 / Philosopher
Abolish
Audience
Distance
Modern Art
Consumer
Motives
Maintain
Primary
Viewer
Wants
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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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Examination
Long
Process
Self
Self-Evident
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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 / Philosopher
Language
Real
Self
Aware
Consists
Follows
Operation
Thus
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Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.
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Music
Listening
Silence
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The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.
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Lying
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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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Aesthetic
Clear
Consciousness
Form
Historical
Acquired
Alienated
Forms
Inherited
Presented
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We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
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Doe
Trying
Understanding
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
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Men
Reality
Thinking
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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. 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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Art
Distance
Fun
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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
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Art
Giving
Religious
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The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
Men
Philosophy
Real
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