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
The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured… — 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
