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Johann Gottfried Herder

Johann Gottfried (after 1802, von) Herder (/ˈhɜːrdər/; German: [ˈheːɐdɐ]; 25 August 1744 – 18 December 1803) was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.

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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.

Beautiful, Life, Purpose, Sense, Thinking

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.

Ice, Melts, Palace, Roaring, Sea, Writing

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

Abstracted, Existence, Individual, Mark, Marks

What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.

Deepest, Heart, Hearts, Lies, Lying, Self

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

Cherished, Heart, Love, Roots

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

Fool, Fools, Silence, Silent, Touch, Wise

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

Children, Glows, Real, Savage, Tribe, Wife

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, Full, Ideas, Moment, Self, Sign

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

Ashamed, Come, Ignorance, Knowledge, Wise

Man is a central creature between the animals, that is to say, the most perfect form, which unites the traits of all in the most complete epitome.

Animal, Complete, Epitome, Men, Perfect, Say

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, Calmly, Crown, Passion, Praise, Winning

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

Embrace, Love, Narrow, Part, Self, Selves

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not performed my duty, he is my friend, however little he may appear so. But if a man praises and lauds me, never reproves me, overlooks my faults, and forgives them before I have repented, he is my enemy, however much he may appear my friend.

Affectionately, Forgiving, Man, Men, Mirrors, Overlooks

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.

Built, Kingdoms, Moves, Moving, Reveal, Views

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

Evil, Fate, Good, Law, Power

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

Craving, Delicate, Fruit, Pleasanter

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

Easier, Girl, Lady, Make, Peasants

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

Fuel, Inspirational, Mind, Motivation, Remain

We live in a world we ourselves create.

Create, Live, World

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.

Dwindles, Friendship, Life, Morning, Till, Wicked