Author: Johann Georg Hamann

Quotes

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

- 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

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