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> [If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/if-only-i-was-as-eloquent-as-demosthenes-i-would-have-to-do-no-more/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

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> [If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/if-only-i-was-as-eloquent-as-demosthenes-i-would-have-to-do-no-more-2/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

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## More by Johann Georg Hamann

> [Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/nature-is-a-book-a-letter-a-fairy-tale-in-the-philosophical-sense-or/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/being-belief-and-reason-are-pure-relations-which-cannot-be-dealt-with/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [What for others is style, for me is soul.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/what-for-others-is-style-for-me-is-soul/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/i-look-upon-logical-proofs-the-way-a-well-bred-girl-looks-upon-a-love/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [“I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/i-look-upon-the-finest-logical-demonstration-the-way-a-sensible-girl/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/self-knowledge-begins-with-the-neighbor-the-mirror-and-just-the-same/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/the-philosophers-have-always-given-truth-a-bill-of-divorce-by/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/if-only-i-was-as-eloquent-as-demosthenes-i-would-have-to-do-no-more/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/everything-the-human-being-heard-from-the-beginning-saw-with-its-eyes/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/physics-is-nothing-but-the-abc-s-nature-is-an-equation-with-an/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/if-only-i-was-as-eloquent-as-demosthenes-i-would-have-to-do-no-more-2/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/the-product-of-paper-and-printed-ink-that-we-commonly-call-the-book/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/indeed-if-a-chief-question-does-remain-how-is-the-power-to-think/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/when-i-rest-my-feet-my-mind-also-ceases-to-function/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

> [“While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-georg-hamann/while-we-are-aiming-at-clear-ideas-the-food-gets-cold-and-tasteless/)

[Johann Georg Hamann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-georg-hamann/)

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