“All cities we have visited” – Hans-Georg Gadamer

„All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind.“

Hans-Georg GadamerA quote by Hans-Georg Gadamer on intellectual formation, diverse experiences, and the metropolis of the mind.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher known for his work in philosophical hermeneutics.

Gadamer presents intellectual formation as a metropolis in which different cities represent diverse experiences and perspectives.


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Hans-Georg Gadamer quote about cities we have visited and the metropolis of the mind

Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher internationally recognized for his work "Truth and Method," which is foundational for philosophical hermeneutics. He focused on the theory of understanding and text interpretation, as well as the role of tradition and language.

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"In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman." Oswald Spengler
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Oswald Spengler quote about the city defying and contradicting natureCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture." Oswald Spengler
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