“Finally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and necessary reliability, then even human reason itself would be inferior to the unfailing and infallible instinct… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding,… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
“I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.” — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
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… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time,… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
