Hans-Georg Gadamer's Quotes
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Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Philosopher
Nation: German
Biography of Hans-Georg Gadamer
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Tags: Distorting, Focus, MirrorLong 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.
Tags: Family, Society, UnderstandIt 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.
Tags: Clear, Education, TrueThe real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
Tags: Language, Real, SaidIt 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.
Tags: Art, Wants, WorkThe 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.
Tags: Living, Real, SaidI cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.
Tags: Cannot, Idiots, StateThere must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights.
Tags: End, Life, WomanI am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.
Tags: Africa, King, LeaderWe have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
Tags: America, American, WarI do not support peace in the Middle East. And I do not support Arafat. He is a stupid, incompetent fool!
Tags: Fool, Peace, StupidLibya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
Tags: Both, Money, PutWe are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.
Tags: American, Courage, PatienceAll right, then nobody can complain if we ask pregnant women to make parachute jumps.
Tags: Ask, Nobody, WomenThe times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
Tags: Money, Put, Times