Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

The Product Of Paper And Printed Ink, That We Commonly Call The Book, Is One Of The Great Visible Mediators Between Spirit And Time, And, Reflecting Zeitgeist, Lasts As Long As Ore And Stone.

If Only I Was As Eloquent As Demosthenes, I Would Have To Do No More Than Repeat A Single Word Three Times.

The Thirst For Vengeance Was The Beautiful Nature Which Homer Imitated

When I Rest My Feet My Mind Also Ceases To Function.

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.

Hence It Happens That One Takes Words For Concepts, And Concepts For The Things Themselves

All Human Wisdom Works And Has Worries And Grief As Reward.

Few Authors Understand Themselves, And A Proper Reader Must Not Only Understand His Author But Also Be Able To See Beyond Him.

Self Knowledge Begins With The Neighbor, The Mirror, And Just The Same With True Self-love; That Goes From The Mirror To The Matter.

The Farther Reason Looks The Greater Is The Haze In Which It Loses Itself.

What Good To Me Is The Festive Garment Of Freedom When I Am In A Slave's Smock At Home?

The Philosophers Have Always Given Truth A Bill Of Divorce, By Separating What Nature Has Joined Together And Vice Versa.