There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.

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

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

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.

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.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I...

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.

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the ‘standpoint of art’ can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology… gives the...

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.

Así tienes que ser, pues es así como te quiero” (Gadamer, 2002, p. 84). »[…] De modo que, tal vez, el sentido más genuino y profundo de ese conocerse a sí mismo no sea otro...

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

Nothing exists except through language.