Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

Johann Georg Hamann — German Philosopher born on August 27, 1730, died on June 21, 1788

Johann Georg Hamann was a German philosopher, whose work was used by his student J. G. Herder as a main support of the Sturm und Drang movement, and associated by historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin with the Counter-Enlightenment. However, recent scholarship such as that by theologian Oswald Bayer places Hamann into a more nebulous category of theologian and philologist, less the proto-Romantic that Herder presented and more a premodern-postmodern thinker who brought the consequences of Lutheran theology to bear upon the burgeoning Enlightenment and especially in reaction to Kant.Goethe and Kierkegaard were among those who considered him to be the finest mind of his time... (wikipedia)

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

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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

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