Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.

— 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,…

— Johann Georg Hamann

What for others is style, for me is soul.

— Johann Georg Hamann

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

— Johann Georg Hamann

“I look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.”

— 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

— Johann Georg Hamann

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— Johann Georg Hamann