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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 Georg Hamann

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

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Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.

~Johann Georg Hamann

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

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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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Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

~Johann Georg Hamann

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

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

~Johann Georg Hamann

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: August 27th, 1730

Died: June 21st, 1788

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