The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.
Johann Georg HamannStichwörter: deep
While we are aiming at clear ideas, the food gets cold and tasteless.
Johann Georg HamannI look upon the finest logical demonstration the way a sensible girl regards a love letter.
Johann Georg HamannDo nothing or everything; the mediocre, the moderate, is repellent to me; I prefer an extreme.
Johann Georg HamannWhat is this reason, with its universality, infallibility, exuberant certainty and obviousness? An ens rationis, a stuffed dummy which the howling superstition of our unreason endows with divine attributes.
Johann Georg HamannFinally it is, by the way, obvious that if mathematics can arrogate to itself the privilege of the nobility because of its universal and necessary reliability, then even human reason itself would be inferior to the unfailing and infallible instinct of insects.
Johann Georg HamannIf sensibility and understanding as the two branches of human knowledge spring from one common root, to what end such a violent, unauthorized and willful separation of that which nature has joined together! Will not both branches wither away and die through a dichotomy and division of their common root?
Johann Georg HamannPoetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.
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