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

- Johann Gottfried Herder

We live in a world we ourselves create.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established p…

- Johann Gottfried Herder

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

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.

- Johann Gottfried Herder

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

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 reason.

- Johann Gottfried Herder