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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

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

The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible me...

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Johann Georg Hamann

Philosopher

Born: 1730-08-27

Died: 1788-06-21

Johann Georg Hamann (August 27 1730 – June 21 1788) was a German philosopher of the Counter-Enlightenment and a main proponent of the Sturm und Drang movement.More