Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

• Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Sensual, Lessons, Reason

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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 God was the word.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Eye, Hands, Saws

  "Sämtliche Werken, vol. III". Book by Josef Nadler, 1949-1957.

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

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Thinking, Language, Reason

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.

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• A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Running, Misunderstood, Today

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• 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

  Weakness, Pieces, Flaws

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• Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mind, Essentials, Three

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 231, 1949 - 1957.

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• Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Spirit, Calming, Vain

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• Veo las pruebas lógicas como una chica bien educada ve una carta de amor...

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Girl, Looks, Letters

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• Si yo fuera tan elocuente como Demóstenes, no tendría más que repetir tres veces una sola palabra. La razón es el lenguaje, el Logos; roeré esta médula y me roeré hasta la muerte por ella. Todavía está siempre oscuro sobre estas profundidades para mí: Sigo esperando siempre un ángel apocalíptico con la llave de este abismo.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Angel, Dark, Keys

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

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• La poesía es la lengua materna de la raza humana.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mother, Race, Poetry

  Johann Georg Hamann (2007). “Writings on Philosophy and Language”

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• La sed de venganza era la bella naturaleza que Homero imitaba

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Beautiful, Vengeance, Beautiful Nature

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• A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Lying, Ambition, Desire

  "Socratic Memorabilia". Book by Johann Georg Hamann, 1967.

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• What for others is style, for me is soul.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Soul, Style

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• When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Feet, Mind, Function

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• Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Able, Reader

  "Briefwechsel, vol. VI". Book by Arthur Henkel, 1955-1975.

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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, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

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  Understanding, Awakening, Hiv

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 7, p. 165, 1955 - 1975.

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• What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Home, Slave, Garments

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• La naturaleza es un libro, una carta, un cuento de hadas (en el sentido filosófico) o como quieras llamarlo.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Book, Philosophical, Letters

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• All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Grief, Worry, Rewards

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• Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Faith, Lying, Romance

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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.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mirrors, Self, Matter

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 6, p. 281, 1955 - 1975.

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• The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Divorce, Together, Vices

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 40, 1949 - 1957.

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• What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Son, Garden, Proud

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• 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

  Thinking, Priorities, Doe

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

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Fog, Looks, Reason

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