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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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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 Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves. Johann G. Hamann 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 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 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. Johann G. Hamann Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it. Johann G. Hamann |
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Quote Keywords: Above, Before, Chief, Deduction, Does, Experience, Genealogical, How, Indeed, Language, Left, Possible, Power, Priority, Prove, Question, Remain, Right, Take, Then, Think, Without |
Dictionary Links: Above, Before, Chief, Deduction, Does, Experience, Genealogical, How, Indeed, Language, Left, Possible, Power, Priority, Prove, Question, Remain, Right, Take, Then, Think, Without |
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