Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?
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
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
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent. - Johann Gottfried Herder
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
We live in a world we ourselves create. - Johann Gottfried Herder
We live in a world we ourselves create.
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
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves. - Johann Gottfried Herder
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned. - Johann Gottfried Herder
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity. - Johann Gottfried Herder
Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
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
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.
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
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.
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