Chiefs Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

“Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.” quote by Johann Georg Hamann — Download Open image

“Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.”

Johann Georg Hamann

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