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