Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamerwas a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Methodon hermeneutics...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 February 1900
CountryGermany
Hans-Georg Gadamer quotes about
artists creative doubt efforts german-philosopher last leaders mainly
There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.
art forms german-philosopher grasped history points primordial view
The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.
german-philosopher
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
understanding trying want
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 what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
opening-up essence possibility
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
self long examination
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 which we live.
music silence listening
Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.
religious art giving
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
cities mind metropolis
All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.
historical consciousness form
It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
german-philosopher history
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.