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> [“In the independent existence that work gives the thing, working consciousness finds itself again as an independent consciousness. Work is restrained desire. In forming the object—that is, in being selflessly active and concerned with a universal—working consciousness raises itself above…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/in-the-independent-existence-that-work-gives-the-thing-working/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

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## More by 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 -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/it-was-clear-to-me-that-the-forms-of-consciousness-of-our-inherited/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/it-is-the-tyranny-of-hidden-prejudices-that-makes-us-deaf-to-what/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/long-before-we-understand-ourselves-through-the-process-of-self/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [“The individual case does not serve only to confirm a law from which practical predictions can be made. Its ideal is rather to understand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/the-individual-case-does-not-serve-only-to-confirm-a-law-from-which/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/for-both-art-and-the-historical-sciences-are-modes-of-experiencing-in/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [Nothing exists except through language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/nothing-exists-except-through-language/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [“In the independent existence that work gives the thing, working consciousness finds itself again as an independent consciousness. Work is restrained desire. In forming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/in-the-independent-existence-that-work-gives-the-thing-working/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [“The sense of taste is able to gain the distance necessary for choosing and judging what is the most urgent necessity of life. Thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/the-sense-of-taste-is-able-to-gain-the-distance-necessary-for/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/the-hermeneutic-consciousness-which-must-be-awakened-and-kept-awake/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/the-focus-of-subjectivity-is-a-distorting-mirror/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/in-fact-history-does-not-belong-to-us-but-we-belong-to-it/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/we-cannot-understand-without-wanting-to-understand-that-is-without/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [“In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is different from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/in-fact-certainty-exists-in-very-different-modes-the-kind-of/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/a-cultured-society-that-has-fallen-away-from-its-religious-traditions/)

[Hans-Georg Gadamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hans-georg-gadamer/)

> [For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hans-georg-gadamer/for-both-art-and-the-historical-sciences-are-ways-of-experiencing-in/)

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