52 Quotes by Johann Georg 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.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

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

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

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

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.

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