Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

German - Philosopher | August 27, 1730 - June 21, 1788

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

Johann Georg Hamann

NatureBookFairy TaleYouWant

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

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WeaknessFlawsReasonEverythingSee

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

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FreedomNothingDessertReasonUse

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

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WisdomGriefRewardHumanWorries

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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PoetryRaceHumanHuman Race

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

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BrainyLooksReasonGreaterHaze

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

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NatureBeautifulVengeanceThirst

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.

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UnderstandingAttentionBeliefSigns

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

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GoodHomeFreedomI AmMeSlave

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

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TodayDayTomorrowMisunderstoodWho

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

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NatureCommunityIdeasNewMore

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

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SpiritEverythingVainSatisfying

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