Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder

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.

Giving

Hands

Soul

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Existence

Individual

Mark

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Friendship

Morning

Wicked

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

Brave

Discipline

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.

Brave

Passion

Winning

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

Bullets

Centre

Gravity

Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.

Children

Country

Race

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?

Children

Ideas

Self

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

Evil

Fate

Law

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

Easier

Girl

Peasants

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Animal

Beautiful

Book

Brave

Bullets

Centre

Children

Country

Craving

Delicate

Discipline

Easier

Embrace

Evil

Existence

Fate

Fool

Forgiving

Friendship

Fruit

Genius

Girl

Giving

Gravity

Hands

Heart

Humanity

Ice

Ideas

Ignorance

Individual

Inspirational

Jesus

Kingdoms

Knowledge

Law

Love

Lying

Mark

Men

Mind

Mirrors

Morning

Motivation

Moving

Passion

Peasants

Perfect

Perseverance

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Quotes by Johann Gottfried Herder

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.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

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.

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

It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

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