The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.
Interpretation
Our own limitations can lead us to focus on imperfections rather than appreciating the whole.
This quote by Johann Georg Hamann suggests that our inherent weaknesses and the limitations of our reasoning abilities often cause us to overlook the beauty in things. Instead of seeing the complete and harmonious picture, we tend to dissect and critiquely analyze every single part, which can obscure our appreciation for the overall beauty that exists in life.
In practice
In a speech about embracing imperfections in art and life.
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.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.
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.
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.
Every cloud engenders not a storm.
He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.
I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
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