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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 Georg Hamann

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A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher.

Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

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