Johann Georg Hamann Quotes on God
Johann Georg Hamann was a German philosopher of language and religion, often called the Magus of the North. This page collects quotes attributed to Johann Georg Hamann on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Johann Georg Hamann:
“Language is the mother of reason and revelation, their A and Omega.”
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Attributed to Johann Georg Hamann:
“Reason is impossible without faith in language.”
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Attributed to Johann Georg Hamann:
“Christianity is folly to the wise but wisdom to the simple.”
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“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. 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.”
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 32. -
“Without language we would have no reason , without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society.”
Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 231.