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The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

~Hans-Georg Gadamer

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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 real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

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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.

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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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Nothing exists except through language.

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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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In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 11th, 1900

Died: March 13th, 2002

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