Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

- Johann Georg Hamann

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

- Johann Georg Hamann