Gadamer Truth Quotes & Sayings

Kami glanced over at Angela. Angela lay serenely with her hands folded across her chest and her lashes like black lace against her white cheeks. "You look so sweet when you sleep," Kami said. "Like an emo ten-year-old's first Vampire Bride Barbie. Pull the string on the back and she says cruel things to her hardworking friends. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! — Mary Boykin Chesnut

You don't count the cost to carry your cross. We must keep advancing the Kingdom of God regardless of the oppositions we face. The enemy only attacks those outside his kingdom. — Josephine Akhagbeme

They live inside of what is essentially one huge wearable. Everyone connected to everyone even when they shit. — Brenda Cooper

The one you are looking for is you. — Osho

In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration. — Rory McIlroy

The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized 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 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. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

The same thing is true of the experience of art. Here the scholarly research pursued by the "science of art" is aware from the start that it can neither replace nor surpass the experience of art. The fact that through a work of art a truth is experienced that we cannot attain in any other way constitutes the philosophic importance of art, which asserts itself against all attempts to rationalize it away. Hence, together with the experience of philosophy, the experience of art is the most insistent admonition to scientific consciousness to acknowledge its own limits. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. — Isaiah Berlin

In fact, certainty exists in very different modes. The kind of certainty afforded by a verification that has passed through doubt is different from the immediate living certainty with which all ends and values appear in human consciousness when they make an absolute claim. But the certainty of science is very different from this kind of certainty that is acquired in life. Scientific certainty always has something Cartesian about it. It is the result of a critical method that seeks only to allow what cannot be doubted. This certainty, then, does not proceed from doubts and their being overcome, but is always anterior to any process of being doubted. — Hans-Georg Gadamer

There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things. — Ernest Fenollosa

A clear right answer and the opportunity to change the options? This is the chooser's dream. — Sheena Iyengar

A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method) — John O'Donohue