Quotes
Authors
Hans-Georg Gadamer

"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."

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black

Hans-Georg Gadamer

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“I like playing heavy metal music and pretending I'm a vampire in front of the mirror.”
“It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.”
“There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.”
“I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that takes His license in the field of time, Unfetterâ€™d by the sense of crime, To whom a conscience never wakes; Nor, what may count itself as blest, The heart that never plighted troth But stagnates in the weeds of sloth; Nor any want-begotten rest. I hold it true, whateâ€™er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; â€˜Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.”
“Iâ€™m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what Iâ€™m saying. I donâ€™t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails Iâ€™m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.”
“But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.”
“Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.”
“I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.”

Source : Ted Haggard (2008). “Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century: Empowering Your Church to Build Community Through Shared Interests”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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