Book Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer Download Open image “I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.” — Hans-Georg Gadamer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Years
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books. — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
I have lots of gaps in my education, and so I'm often picking up classic books that most people read years ago. — David Grann Copy Share Image
I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details. — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them. — Frances McDormand 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
