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.
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Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann G. Hamann
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