“The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.” Quote by Johann Gottfried Herder
“The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species” ChildrenRealWholeLife IsJoyOpinionWifeActivityQuietShadowSpeciesSavagesTribes Book:Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man Source: Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man
“I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.” PeopleWantGivingKnownNewsAim Author:Tori Amos
“Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.” GravityBulletsCentreNationalityHappiness Within Author:Johann Gottfried Herder
“I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter” WayWellsLooksGirlLettersProofLook UpLogicalLove Letter Author: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.” LongBookLastsSpiritProductsPaperStonesVisibleInkReflectingPrintedZeitgeistMediators Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves” HappensConcepts Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.” SelfMatterSelf LoveMirrorsNeighborSelf KnowledgeTrue Self Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“Few authors understand themselves, and a proper reader must not only understand his author but also be able to see beyond him.” AbleReader Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated” BeautifulThirstVengeanceBeautiful Nature Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.” ReasonPiecesWeaknessFlaws Author:Johann Georg Hamann