Hans-Georg Gadamer

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.

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These are some quotes by German author Hans-Georg Gadamer Philosopher, who lived between February 11, 1900 and March 13, 2002.

Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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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 a work of art.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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

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