I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
More Quotes from Hans-Georg Gadamer:
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.Hans-Georg Gadamer
The primordial experiences that are transmitted through art and history are not to be grasped from the points of view of these forms of consciousness.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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