Johann Georg Hamann Quotes

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

Johann Georg Hamann

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• People always say I'm a legend, but I'm not. Not until I've defended my Olympic titles. That's when I've decided I'll be a legend.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • People
  • Always
  • Legend

• Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Power
  • Opportunity

• My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Good
  • Growing

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Analog
  • Slide-Rule

• It is very important that a leader in the hotel industry be both creative, I think, and compassionate.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Important
  • Creative
  • Leader

• I love purple because my name is Amethyst.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Name
  • Purple
  • Amethyst

• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Remember

• I always compartmentalized so many different things.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Always
  • Things

• I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from the more common form associated with Alzheimer's disease.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Common
  • Alzheimer
  • Dementia

• The Santiago Bernabeu is an amazing stadium.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Amazing
  • Stadium

• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Experience
  • America

• It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable - and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.

  

  Rajneesh
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things, which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• Social equality is not a subject to be legislated upon, nor shall I ask that anything be done to advance the social status of the colored man, except to give him a fair chance to develop what there is good in him, give him access to the schools, and when he travels let him feel assured that his conduct will regulate the treatment and fare he will receive.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Good
  • Done
  • Equality

• You are so funny to ask me about 'The Look'. I've been asked many times, and I really am not sure what anyone means.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Funny

• All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice... If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Home
  • She

• If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Giving

• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Personality
  • Silence
  • Rejection

• In the Egyptian and Eastern cosmogonies, and in the Greek version of them, no very definite meaning can, in general, be attached to the term 'destruction of the world,' for sometimes it would seem almost to imply the annihilation of our planetary system, and at others a mere revolution of the surface of the earth.

  

  Charles Lyell
  • World
  • Earth
  • Revolution

• The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

  

  Johann Georg Hamann