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Johann Georg Hamann Quotes: Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.
         

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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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

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Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.



A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.



The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.



The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.



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.

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.



What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?



Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.



What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.

What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.



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.

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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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.



There are people all over the world starving and here we are trying to get pot delivered for free; we felt kind of guilty.

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The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.

The stamp of the Saint is that he can waive his own rights and obey the Lord Jesus.



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If you don't disturb yourself, like a broken gong does not vibrate, then you have achieved nirvana. Irritability no longer exists for you.



Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.

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I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

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