In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
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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.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 focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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
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
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.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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