Johann Georg Hamann

Thus the public use of reason and freedom is nothing but a dessert, a sumptuous dessert.

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

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.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

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.

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