"What good to me is the festive garment……" — Johann Georg Hamann
"What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?"
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Johann Georg Hamann
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25 Quotes by Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Georg Hamann has 25 quotes on this site.
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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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More Festive Quotes
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one of 42 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
— Roseanne Barr
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Let this be the criterion always: anything that makes you festive, anything that gives you celebration, anything that makes you…
— Rajneesh
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Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty.
— John Donne
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I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on…
— Margaret Fuller
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When people have asked me in the past if I'm gay, I've said "I'm not gay, but I'm festive."
— Sharon Gless
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If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
— Thom Yorke
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If you desire to find the true spirit of Christmas and partake of the sweetness of it, let me make…
— Howard W. Hunter
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second…
— Plato
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Is not the festive season when families and friends exchange gifts in memory of The Gift laid on the altar…
— Lottie Moon
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Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up…
— Mimi Sheraton
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Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just…
— Rajneesh
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So your life becomes a vital celebration, your relationship becomes a festive thing. Whatsoever you do, every moment is a…
— Rajneesh
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