Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away, the ice melts, and away goes our palace, like our thoughts. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might have been… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ...… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
“You people in all parts of the world, who have passed away over the ages, you did not live only to fertilize the earth… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share
