Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Johann Georg Hamann

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Present
  • Identity

• I think the gay community, just like anybody, should be represented in all forms and all types.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Think
  • Community
  • Gay

• The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Party
  • Government

• We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Business
  • Because
  • Strategy

• My body is my greatest asset.

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Body
  • Greatest
  • Asset

• Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Fall
  • Said

• In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Men
  • Women
  • Political

• Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Agree
  • Often
  • Tear

• I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Know
  • Artist
  • Say

• So I have been careful about where I go and who I hang out with because if you tell someone the wrong thing, then it's everywhere.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • You
  • Someone
  • Go

• I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Tough

• As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my God, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

  

  Rafe Spall
  • God
  • Me
  • Cool

• Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

  Ford Frick
  • You
  • Others
  • Deaf

• If you speak to any soldier, even now, they say they are fighting for their friends. It always ends up that they're fighting for the man next to them.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Man

• A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
  • Well
  • Fraud
  • Negligence

• Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Truth

• I see less and less.. .I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most propitious for me, as long as my paint tubes and brushes are not mixed up.. ..I will paint almost blind, as Beethoven composed completely deaf.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Culture

• Memorial bracelets memorializing prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater are authorized.

  

  James F. Amos
  • War
  • Action
  • Missing

• Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.]

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Art
  • Science
  • Religion

• Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom.

  

  Carolyn Heilbrun
  • Value
  • Relations
  • Marriages

• Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann