Reinhart Koselleck Quotes on Time
Reinhart Koselleck was a German historian and philosopher and the principal architect of the school of conceptual history known as Begriffsgeschichte. This page collects quotes attributed to Reinhart Koselleck on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Reinhart Koselleck:
“Concepts are not just mirrors of history; they shape it.”
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Attributed to Reinhart Koselleck:
“History takes place in the tension between expectation and experience.”
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Attributed to Reinhart Koselleck:
“Modernity is the experience of the acceleration of time.”
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Attributed to Reinhart Koselleck:
“The historian must read concepts as carefully as events.”
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Attributed to Reinhart Koselleck:
“What we call progress is also the loss of older possibilities.”