Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes on Mind
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher and the founder of philosophical hermeneutics. This page collects quotes attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer:
“All understanding is interpretation.”
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Attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer:
“It is not so much our judgments as our prejudices that constitute our being.”
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Attributed to Hans-Georg Gadamer:
“Understanding is always more than merely re-creating someone else's meaning.”
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“Aristotle established the classical definition of man, according to which man is the living being who has logos . In the tradition of the West, this definition became canonical in a form which stated that man is the animal rationale , the rational being, distinguished from all other animals by his capacity for thought. Thus it rendered the Greek word logos as reason or thought. In truth, however, the primary meaning of this word is language. ... The word logos means not only thought and language, but also concept and law.”
Man and Language (1966) -
“The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognizes that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming a utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.”
Foreword to the Second Edition, p. xxiv