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Nothing exists except through language.
Hans-Georg Gadamer / Philosopher
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Being that can be understood is language.
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History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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Mirrors
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
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Years
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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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Does
Belong
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In Fact
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All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.
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Cities
Metropolis
Mind
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The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
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Essence
Opening Up
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It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
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Prejudice
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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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Language
Real
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Hear
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From Gadamer I learned that to understand a given thinker requires one to presuppose that he is right.
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The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
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Communication
Essence
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For both art and the historical sciences are ways of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence is immediately brought into play.
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Art
Play
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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 / Philosopher
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Consumer
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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 state in which we live.
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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 consists in what is said in it.
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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.
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The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of poetic language only interpret what the poetry has already interpreted.
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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 consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
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Clear
Consciousness
Form
Historical
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Alienated
Forms
Inherited
Presented
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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.
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Doe
Trying
Understanding
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What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.
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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. There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.
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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.
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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.
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Men
Philosophy
Real
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