Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma. - Johann Georg Hamann

Sämtliche Werken, ed. Josef Nadler (1949-1957), vol. III, p. 40.

Every phenomenon of nature was a word, — the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. Everything the human being heard from the beginning, saw with its eyes, looked upon and touched with its hands was a living word; for God was the word.

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