“What is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of our unreason endows with divine attributes.” — 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
