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9 quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer (German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and... →

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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical... →

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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis... →

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Nothing exists except through language.

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

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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being... →

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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

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