"Touch not the flute when drums are sounding……" — Johann Gottfried Herder

"Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent."

— Johann Gottfried Herder

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16 Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried Herder has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be…
Thus we build on the ice, thus we write on the waves of the sea; the waves roaring pass away,…
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their…
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe…
Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds…
All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

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More Drums Quotes

This quote is filed under Drums Quotes, one of 287 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit. — Travis Barker
My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full… — Travis Barker
Playing my drums is therapy. — Travis Barker
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single… — Mary McLeod Bethune
People who don't take care of their drums really annoy me. — John Bonham
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm. — Malin Akerman
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. — David Byrne
On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums...… — Sun Tzu
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other… — Aberjhani
Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the… — Edward Abbey
I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your… — Bill Kreutzmann
Can we ring the bells backward? Can we unlearn the arts that pretend to civilize, and then burn the world?… — Charles Lamb

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