Art Quote 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 -…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Nothing exists except through language.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

— 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…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer