All Johann Gottfried Herder Quotes
- So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… Ancient
- Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. Best
- 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… Away Goes
- Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves. Embrace
- Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. Brave
- 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… Creator
- The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. Craving
- 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… Activity
- Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity. Bullet
- Whoever perseveres will be crowned. Crowned
- To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in… Beautiful
- All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing Abstracted
- What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self. Deepest
- Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others. Ashamed
- Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. Drums
- We live in a world we ourselves create. Create