Hamann Quotes
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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
— Johann G. Hamann
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
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter
— Johann Georg Hamann
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.
— Johann Georg Hamann
People with motorcycles always assume that everyone without one wants a ride. I didn't want to offend him, so I said sure.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
What is freedom when you're too beholden to act spontaneously
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
I was an American girl; I possessed what our culture valued most-independance and blind courage.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Why remain polite but powerless, in love but a beggar?
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
— Johann Georg Hamann
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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
If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it's inflated value, it's inevitable loss.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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
Sometimes the best you can do is your small part, perfectly
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Sometimes you can't help but destroy the intricate things in life.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
We are spontaneous when we are at our genuine best.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Getting lost just means not understanding.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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
Whatever Elisabeth did, Franz Joseph's affection remained unchanged.
— Brigitte Hamann
I could never settle for anything less than a renegade and a runaway, a descendant of greatness capable of voluntary disinheritance.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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
When you lose your parents as a child, you are indoctrinated into a club, you re taken into life's severest confidence. You are undeceived.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
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
What for others is style, for me is soul.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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
The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.
— Johann Georg Hamann
Nothing is an easy thing to feel but a difficult thing to express (pg 20).
— Hilary Thayer Hamann
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
— Johann Georg Hamann
