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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. He was a Protestant Christian.

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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Focus, Mirror, Mirrors, Objectivity, Subjectivity

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

Language, Real, Said, Taken

Being that can be understood is language.

Famous Inspirational, Understanding, Language, Understood

From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.

Given, Right, Thinker, Understand

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 consists in what is said in it.

Consists, Language, Operation, Real, Self

The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.

Essence, Opening Up, Possibility, Keeping, Opening

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.

Examination, Family, Long, Self, State

Nothing exists except through language.

Except, Exists, Language, Nothing

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.

Aesthetic, Consciousness, Form, Historical, True

History does not belong to us; we belong to it.

Belong, Doe, History

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

2000, Basically, Book, Read, Years

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.

Claiming, Doe, Know, Occur, Trying, Understanding

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 and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.

Awakened, Becoming, Men, Philosophy, Real, Truth

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 a work of art. 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, Consumer, Distance, Fun, Leaders, Motives