Hans-Georg Gadamer Quotes
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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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The world is too violent right now.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'
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I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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The security and the future of Jordan is hand-in-hand with the future of the Palestinians and the Israelis.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.
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In case you never noticed, the path you never chose has chosen you.
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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.
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The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal.
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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.
