So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like… — 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 Image
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
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 Image
Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
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 Image
