A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand to lead them to that world. — 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 property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the… — 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 performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is… — 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 the happiest?” If I properly understand the question, and if it is not altogether beyond the scope of a human answer, I can think of nothing to say except that at a certain time and under… — 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 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
