Evil allows for no system. It asserts itself, and its connection with others is often little better than the haze from a fog. Thus the author of evil cannot act coherently. Like a sly minister of state, he employs every means, every strategy, to help himself escape embarrassment, even if he too had to contradict all that he just had said and done just one minute earlier.
[Johann Georg Hamann, The Complete London Writings, Kleinig, tr., Lexham Academic (Bellingham: 2025) p. 70. This is from the Biblical Meditations of a Christian on Leviticus 19:33.]
