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Johann Georg Hamann quotes: Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

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

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

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 quotes: I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

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

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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 quotes: When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.

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

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: 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 quotes: 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 quotes: If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

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

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

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

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 quotes: What for others is style, for me is soul.

What for others is style, for me is soul.

Johann Georg Hamann quotes: 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 quotes: Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter

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

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