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Johann G. Hamann

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

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"Sometimes, humanity surprises me with all its lack of control over the primordial urges. These innate urges are the biological traits that make us similar to the rest of the animal kingdom. But the modern qualities that make us superior to all the animals are intellect and self-control."

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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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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"Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it."
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"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."
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"The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated."
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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."
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"All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward."
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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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"The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself."
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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."
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