Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
More Quotes from Johann G. Hamann:
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love that goes from the mirror to the matter.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
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
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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
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