"Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond of society."

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Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 231, 1949 - 1957.

Johann Georg Hamann

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“The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner; big family gatherings; and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I'm doing good.”
“I don't read or write SF for cutting edge ideas; I read and write it for the storytelling, and every story is new. So have I brought anything new to it? Only in so far as no-one before has written about the characters I've invented in their particular situation.”

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“God blesses his people with extravagant grace so they might extend his extravagant glory to all peoples on the earth”
“It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.”
“Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.”
“Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.”
“Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.”
“The belief that a personal life exists apart from God creates experience disconnected from God. This is painful and frustrating. Our spiritual work is to break down the illusion that we have a life here and that a life of God is somewhere else.”

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