"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

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Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.

Johann Georg Hamann

#Thinking Quotes #Language Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I don't need no extra hands in my pocket.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.
“Listen," I began, "this is an established,traditional form that-" "Traditional nothing.Where are your clothes?" "Clothes?" I said weakly. "I don't normally bother with them in this guise." "Well,you could put on a pair of shorts,at least.Your not decent." "I'm not sure they'd go with the wings..." The demon frowend,and blinked."Hold on,enough of this." "Lenderhosen would. They'd compliment the leather.”
“My most radical shift was leaving Intel and joining Google, a small startup at the time, even though I was pregnant.”
“People say that you always have to tell the truth. But they do not mean this because you are not allowed to tell old people that they are old and you are not allowed to tell people if they smell funny or if a grown-up has made a fart. And you are not allowed to say, 'I don't like you,' unless that person has been horrible to you.”
“You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.”
“Be friendly to everybody; protect yourself; people sometimes want a piece of you for no good reason; and always do things out of love not fear.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.”
“For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.”

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