Johann Christian

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“The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence, direct and indirect, upon the romantic revolt against universalism and scientific method ... was considerable and perhaps crucial.”
—Isaiah Berlin (b. 1909)

“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)