"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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Briefwechsel, ed. Arthur Henkel (1955-1975), vol. VI, p. 281.
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Johann Georg Hamann
1730 β 1788
deutscher Philosoph und Schriftsteller
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