Concepts Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

“Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves”

Johann Georg Hamann

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

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Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding,…

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What for others is style, for me is soul.

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

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

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Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter

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

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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is…

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Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for…

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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…

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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

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The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time,…

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All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts.

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