A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher. — 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
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
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share
“I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.” — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share
“While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.” — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share
