"Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which……" — 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, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it."
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Johann Georg Hamann
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25 Quotes by Johann Georg Hamann
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Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
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I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
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The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators…
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves
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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…
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Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see…
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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated
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The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece…
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What for others is style, for me is soul.
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A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the…
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Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
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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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