Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
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
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
Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.
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
Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for unders…
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
Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond …
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 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…
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
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
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 Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? - Johann Georg Hamann
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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
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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