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Johann Georg Hamann

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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.


— Johann Georg Hamann


#add #consonants #dots #equation #hebrew

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.


— Johann Georg Hamann


#human race #poetry #race

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


— Johann Georg Hamann


#greater #haze #itself #looks #loses

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


— Johann Georg Hamann


#homer #imitated #nature #thirst #vengeance

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


— Johann Georg Hamann


#consider #everything #flaws #makes #making

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


— Johann Georg Hamann


#freedom #nothing #public #reason #sumptuous

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


— Johann Georg Hamann


#festive #freedom #garment #good #home






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Influences on Hamann
Hamann was a Pietist Lutheran and a friend (while being an intellectual opponent) of the philosopher Immanuel Kant. For example his work Golgatha and Scheblimini! By a Preacher in the Wilderness (1784) was directed against Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem or on Religious Might and Judaism (1782). Also Hamann asserted that the efficacy of a concept arises from the habits it reflects rather than any inherent quality it possesses.

Johann Georg Hamann (27 August 1730 – 21 June 1788) was a noted German philosopher a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment.

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