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.

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• Johann Georg Hamann:

  Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

• Johann Georg Hamann:

  If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word thre

• Johann Georg Hamann:

  Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think r

• Johann Georg Hamann:

  Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call

• Johann Georg Hamann:

  Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misu

• Johann Georg Hamann:

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

• Johann Georg Hamann:

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• Johann Georg Hamann:

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

• Johann Georg Hamann:

  The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.