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

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

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for unders…

- Johann Georg Hamann

Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond …

- Johann Georg Hamann

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consist…

- Johann Georg 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

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

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

- 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