All Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
- Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. Arise
- I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter Bred
- 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,… Book
- Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves Concepts
- Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter Begins
- Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him Able
- The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated Beautiful
- The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece. Beauties
- What for others is style, for me is soul. Inspirational
- A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow. Danger
- Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert. Dessert
- Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. Book
- What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger. Blooms
- All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. All
- Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation… All
- Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. Calming
- 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… Beginning
- If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Demosthenes
- Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without,… Chief
- 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… Abc
- What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? Festive
- Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. Ability
- The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself. Brainy
- Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race. Human
- Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not… Absolutely