Johann Georg Hamann Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Thinking, Language, Reason

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.

• 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

  Thinking, Priorities, Doe

• Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Mind, Essentials, Three

  "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 231, 1949 - 1957.

• If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Angel, Dark, Keys

  "Briefwechsel ('Correspondence')". Book edited by Arthur Henkel, Volume 5, p. 177, 1955 - 1975.

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