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

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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

#being #being misunderstood #danger #day #hurry

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

— Johann Georg Hamann

#human #human wisdom #reward #wisdom #works

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. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#divine #energies #every #ideas #inexpressible

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

— Johann Georg Hamann

#everything #instead #satisfying #spirit #tortures

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

#being #everything #eyes #god #hands

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#happens #hence #takes #themselves #things

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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

— Johann Georg Hamann

#call #fairy #fairy tale #letter #nature

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

#human #least #lesson #our #reason