Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love that goes from the mirror to the matter.
More Quotes from Johann G. Hamann:
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.Johann G. Hamann
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Johann G. Hamann
The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
Johann G. Hamann
Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.
Johann G. Hamann
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
Johann G. Hamann
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
Johann G. Hamann
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