Author: Johann Georg Hamann

Quotes

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

- Johann Georg Hamann

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.

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.

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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.

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

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

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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