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.
From Johann Georg Hamann
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?
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.
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.
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
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.
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