If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes... by Johann G. Hamann | We Heart Quotes

theologian philosopher Faith Reason Christianity

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

- Johann G. Hamann

Other quotes by Johann G. Hamann

Spirit

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

- Johann G. Hamann

Eyes God Being

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 G. Hamann

Flaws

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

- Johann G. Hamann

Ability

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

- Johann G. Hamann

Belief Being

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.

- Johann G. Hamann

Nature

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

- Johann G. Hamann

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