Quotes by Johann Georg Hamann

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone.

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.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slaves smock at home?