Johann Gottfried Herder famous quotes

03-28-2025

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Motivation #Inspiration #Mind
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Lying #Heart #Self
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

#Beautiful #Thinking #Purpose
Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Perseverance #Persevere
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Wise #Silence #Fool
We live in a world we ourselves create.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#World
Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Passion #Winning #Brave
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

#Wise #Ignorance #Knowledge
Jesus Christ is, in the noblest and most perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Jesus #Perfect #Humanity
All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Individual #Mark #Existence
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that our Earth has fashioned itself, from its chaos of substances and powers, through the animating warmth of the creative spirit, to a peculiar and original whole, by a series of preparatory revolutions, till at last the crown of its creation, the exquisite and tender creature man, was enabled to appear.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Book #Men #Creative
Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Bullets #Gravity #Centre
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 is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Children #Real #Wife
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Fruit #Delicate #Craving
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

#Hands #Giving #Soul
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Brave #World #Lions
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Love #Self #Embrace
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 goes our palace, like our thoughts.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Writing #Ice #Sea
nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution.
-- Johann Gottfried Herder

#Moving #Views #Kingdoms

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