History Quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer Download Open image ““In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.”” — Hans-Georg Gadamer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Truth
“Historians rewrite the truth every day. What interests us is the truth that gets the reader to reach for his wallet” — Andreï Makine Copy Share Image
“History tends to play games with the truth, but at least it does so with a flourish.” — Mitch Rowland Copy Share Image
“We are surrounded by various histories and fragments from the ages. Some are true. Some are only the approximation of truth. Some truths are hard to accept. If you believe only what you like in the histories, and reject what you don’t want to believe, it is not the truth you seek, but a confirmation of your own opinions. You… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share
“History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.” — Michelle Richmond Copy Share Image
“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“We should never, ever believe life- or history- holds no surprises for us. That way lies arrogance. And arrogance can blind us to the… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
“History is not what happened but what you are told has happened, irrespective of what is true.” — Elspeth Marr Copy Share Image
“The only truth that matters, is the truth within. For without that truth can be made a lie.” — Sarah Pussell 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
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
