The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.
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Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.Johann G. Hamann
We see the impossibility of remedying all inequalities in human society and we see an overwhelming number of deficiencies and flaws in it.
Johann G. Hamann
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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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.
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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.
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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.
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