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
Topics: Knowledge
Friendship with the evil is like the shadow in the morning, decreasing every hour; but friendship with the good is like the evening shadows, increasing till the sun of life sets.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Friendship
The working of revolutions 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.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Revolution
Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Perseverance
We build on the ice, and 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
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Discipline
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
Topics: Inspiration, Inspirational
Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Silence
Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Love
It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power wears itself out.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
—Johann Gottfried Herder
Topics: Heart
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Immanuel Kant Prussian German Philosopher
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran Pastor
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German Poet
- Wilhelm von Humboldt German Statesman, Scholar
- Friedrich Schiller German Poet
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi German Philosopher
- Martin Luther German Protestant Theologian
- Moses Mendelssohn German Jewish Philosopher
- Arthur Schopenhauer German Philosopher
- Martin Heidegger German Existential Philosopher
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