German - Philosopher | August 27, 1730 - June 21, 1788
Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.
Johann Georg Hamann
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Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
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Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
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Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
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Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
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Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
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