Johann Georg Hamann Quotes & Sayings

19 most famous Johann Georg Hamann quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.”

“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”

“Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.”

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

“The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.”

“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.”

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

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

“Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.”

“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 reason has to add the dots.”

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