Beauty Quote by Johann Georg Hamann

“The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.” quote by Johann Georg Hamann — Download Open image

“The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.”

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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“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts”

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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