Cities Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer Download Open image “All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.” — Hans-Georg Gadamer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cities Metropolis Mind Psychology
I think there's something very peculiar about living in the city and not part of the major metropolis; that actually makes it remarkably easy… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
I always figured Metropolis was north of New York, actually. Between New York and Boston, in my mind. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
In the future, all cities will be distinguished by one thing only. The nature of their enthusiasm. — Pier Giorgio Di Cicco Copy Share Image
“All metropolises have one thing in common: they are made up of a crowd of lonely people” — S.E. SEVER Copy Share Image
I think every metropolitan city has its pockets of - that's what makes them great. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness -… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
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… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“The individual case does not serve only to confirm a law from which practical predictions can be made. Its ideal is rather to understand… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In the independent existence that work gives the thing, working consciousness finds itself again as an independent consciousness. Work is restrained desire. In forming… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
“The sense of taste is able to gain the distance necessary for choosing and judging what is the most urgent necessity of life. Thus… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
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… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
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… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All Germany was in turmoil. Revolutionaries seized power in the cities of Munich, Hanover and Cologne. One regional German government after another was toppled… — James Cross Giblin Copy Share Image
Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away. — Patrick Modiano Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I didn't know the city at all, but I was so happy to be in New York I cried. I was so excited. — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills.… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image