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.
More Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
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.
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.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Nothing exists except through language.