Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.
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Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.Johann G. Hamann
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
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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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If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
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Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
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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.
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