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Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Johann G. Hamann
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.
Johann G. Hamann
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Johann G. 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 G. Hamann
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
Johann G. Hamann
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann G. Hamann
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I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
Paul Bettany
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
Peter Garrett
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
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(About Mystery, Nature, Sign & Symbol)
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.
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Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Johann G. Hamann
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.
Johann G. Hamann
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Johann G. 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 G. Hamann
Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
Johann G. Hamann
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann G. Hamann
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Based on Topics: Mystery Quotes, Nature Quotes, Sign & Symbol Quotes
Based on Keywords: inexpressible
I feel safe in saying this, and that is that Peter Weir is without a doubt one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. I'd open a door in a movie for him if he asked me to.
Paul Bettany
I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.
Peter Garrett
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright