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> [“The sense of taste is able to gain the distance necessary for choosing and judging what is the most urgent necessity of life. Thus Gracian already sees in taste a “spiritualization of animality” and rightly points out that there is…](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/)

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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/)

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

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