"Speak that I may see thee."
J. G. Hamann
"When J.G. Hamann enunciated the revealing paradox, 'Speak that I may see thee', he opened a window on the mystery of personal revelation. We do not truly know the other unless he or she opens him - or herself to be known. Knowledge of the other is mediated by all the five senses, but the saying rightly indicates word and sight as the central. What we say and how we present ourselves - for example, in the way we dress and bear ourselves - are at the centre of the way we make ourselves known to our neighbor."
The Authority of the Other, Colin Gunton
"When J.G. Hamann enunciated the revealing paradox, 'Speak that I may see thee', he opened a window on the mystery of personal revelation. We do not truly know the other unless he or she opens him - or herself to be known. Knowledge of the other is mediated by all the five senses, but the saying rightly indicates word and sight as the central. What we say and how we present ourselves - for example, in the way we dress and bear ourselves - are at the centre of the way we make ourselves known to our neighbor."
The Authority of the Other, Colin Gunton
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