Quotes by Johann G Hamann

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a...

#Johann G Hamann

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

#Johann G Hamann

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by...

#Johann G Hamann

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

#Johann G Hamann

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

#Johann G Hamann

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

#Johann G Hamann

Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew...

#Johann G Hamann

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

#Johann G Hamann

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the...

#Johann G Hamann

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever...

#Johann G Hamann

Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? -...

#Johann G Hamann

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more...

#Johann G Hamann