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

I can't save them by myself, oh but God forbid that I just turn my head and walk on by. Don't let me be a stranger to those less fortunate than I. — Darryl Worley

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

The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind. — Dizzy Dean

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

When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function. — Johann Georg Hamann

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

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. — Ralph Barton Perry

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

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

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats. — Aldous Huxley

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

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored. — Mark Twain

I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today. — Og Mandino

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

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

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

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself. — Johann Georg Hamann

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clark

Set your affection to infinity and your hate to zero! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Do not fear for me for I am in a far better place. Although turmoil may brew all around you, you will find comfort, and rest. Fear not. — Daniel Murphy