Top 23 Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes
#1. As in play, it rests on a common willingness of the participants in conversation to lend themselves to the emergence of something else, the Sache or subject matter which comes to presence and presentation in conversation.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#2. The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#3. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#12. All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#14. The long history of this idea before Kant made it the basis of his Critique of Judgment shows that the concept of taste was originally more a moral than an aesthetic idea.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#15. 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
#16. The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#17. 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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#18. 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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#19. The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#20. For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#22. It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
#23. 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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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