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Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

Johann Georg Hamann quotes

Deutsch Philosopher August 27, 1730 – June 21, 1788

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Johann Georg Hamann quote: "The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer..."
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws..."
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical..."
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. Johann Georg Hamann
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone. Johann Georg Hamann
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in..."
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Johann Georg Hamann
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do..."
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Johann Georg Hamann
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. Johann Georg Hamann
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language. Johann Georg Hamann
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a..."
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow..."
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann quote: "Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race."
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Johann Georg Hamann

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