Johann Georg Hamann Quotes
Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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When 'Romeo and Juliet' came along, I fell in love with the way that it was written and how innocent and vulnerable it was and how different it was from 'True Grit.' I really liked that.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
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I doubt there’s ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.
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When I went to drama school, I thought that everybody would think I was only there because my dad was on TV.
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As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
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Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.
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I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.
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Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.
